26 Nov
2008
26 Nov
'08
5:27 p.m.
Hi Keith,
I would be careful on what you mean by "not recognised by the kernel". In a typical distro the "recognition" is not done by the kernel, but by some external utility which scans the hardware and attempts to associate the devices with drivers. Things like kudzu, harddrake, hotplugging and udev are things to research here.
Yeah I didn't think through what I was saying there. The devices are recognised by the various parts of Linux (openSuse in this case) but no drivers are loaded.
I think I'm going to have to get used to writing drivers at some point in my Linux life, so might as well start with these simpler devices - even if some of the existing stuff would work given a few config changes.
Cheers mate.