On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, John Rowe wrote:

> This seems to be something of an ongoing, underlying issue: how do I
> find out which hardware drivers are present in the install kernel? My
> current problem is that I have an asus motherboard which has an Intel
> ICH7R chipset with sata and a Silicon Image 3132 sata chipset which
> claims to have been supported since kernel 2.4. But my SL 40 install

It may have been supported in later kernel 2.4 as these are new hardware.

In this case you will have to read all of the release notes.  

/usr/share//usr/share/doc/sl-release-3.0.?/RELEASE-NOTES-*i386-en

The reason for reading the release notes vs something else is that all the 
other things will show is that there is Silicon Image support and not 
which chipsets.

You could use modinfo on the modules in /lib/modules/<kernel 
version>/kernel/  to look at what info they provide.

A note on the ICH7R chipset,  it has different bios options.  Some of 
which Linux does not support as well(raid support, added in 2.4.31).  I 
think the option that is best supported is something that does not say 
raid in the name.  I do not remember the exact wording.  You want the 
option that has each disk not part of a raid.


 > disk says it can't find 
any disks. 
> > Frustrated!

Tell Intel.

> 
> John
> 

-Connie Sieh