Configuring devices with Debian GNU/Linux

Romain Lerallut

The aim of this document is to help people install basic pieces of hardware, such as soundcards.

SGML source for this document is available on the Newbiedoc Project's site. This is GPL territory.


Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found at the Free Software Foundation.

Revision History
Revision v0.615 January 2002Revised by: rl
Massive rewrite
Revision v0.0430 May 2001Revised by: rml
Changes in the title page.
Revision v0.0324 May 2001Revised by: rml
More comments from Jon, and more changes.
Revision v0.0222 May 2001Revised by: rml
Changed the structure a bit, after Jon's comments.
Revision v0.0116 April 2001Revised by: rml
Started this whole thing.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Credits
1.2. Feedback
2. Preparing the hardware
2.1. Plug and Play
2.2. non-Plug-and-Play
2.3. If you use windows
3. Configuring the software
3.1. What kind of driver do you have ?
3.2. Compiling a driver
3.3. Passing Options to a module...
3.4. Automatic Module Loading
3.5. Summary
4. Troubleshooting
4.1. Trouble at the compilation
4.2. Unresolved symbols
4.3. Can't locate module char-major-xx
5. Finding more info