On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:29:52PM -0700, Jason Marshall wrote: > > man systemconfigurator, see the section on the hardware.lst file. > > I did read that, but it doesn't look like it will allow me to use that > single image on an arbitrarily-outfitted node (ie, one with 2x gig, or one > with 2x 100bT, or a mix of the two). We do have a mix of machines, and I > don't want more images than I need. And I _really_ don't want to have to > teach people how to tell what image they need to use...
System Configurator was written to allow just that. It changes the
modules.conf on the fly during setup to the hardware on your machine.
This just specifies pci ids -> hardware modules. If you are getting e1000
vs. eepro100 for a card, this is where you adjust it. SystemConfigurator
does auto hardware detection using an internal db, and this lets you
override some of those mappings.
> > man systemconfig.conf
> > see the HARDWARE order section.
>
> Is that not still going to make my image single-flavour-of-machine
> centric? I don't understand how listing modules in a particular order
> will cause the right module to be mated to the right NIC.
This will let you say that e1000 adapters always should come before eepro100
adapters when being set up. If you have a machine with mixed cards, you
might need to set this to make things come up in the order *you* want them,
vs. the order that Linux will set them up in automatically.
> Am I mistaken?
>
> Thanks Sean!
-Sean
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