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NAME="hardware"
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>5. Hardware and kernel</H1
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>5.1. Setup</H2
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> This is a description of the salient features of the setup used to
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develop the procedures described below. All the procedures have
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been tried and tested, also for Linux-2.6. The screen-like
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displays are precise copies of what appeared on my screen.
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> Hardware: Intel (R) Celeron (TM) 1100 MHz
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> Distribution: RedHat Linux 7.0 (extensively modified)
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> Kernel: Linux-2.4.20 (from www.kernel.org). See also
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>Section 12</A
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> for Linux-2.6.x.
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> Tools: util-linux-2.11z (<SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>mount</SPAN
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>, <SPAN
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>umount</SPAN
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>, <SPAN
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>fdisk</SPAN
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>);
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e2fsprogs-1.32 (<SPAN
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>mke2fs</SPAN
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>, <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>dumpe2fs</SPAN
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>, <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>fsck.ext2</SPAN
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>);
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mkdosfs-2.2
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>5.2. Kernel options</H2
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> It is uncertain if USB-support is sufficient in kernels earlier
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than 2.4.xx. The following support, relevant to this document, was
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compiled into the kernel. A modular approach may also be followed.
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>5.2.1. SCSI support</H3
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> SCSI support (CONFIG_SCSI scsi_mod.o)</SPAN
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> SCSI disk support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD sd_mod.o)</SPAN
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>5.2.2. File systems</H3
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> DOS FAT fs support (CONFIG_FAT_FS fat.o)</SPAN
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> MSDOS fs support (CONFIG_MSDOS_FS msdos.o)</SPAN
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VFAT (Windows 95) fs support (CONFIG_VFAT_FS vfat.o)
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> /proc filesystem (CONFIG_PROC_FS)</SPAN
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Second extended fs support (ext2fs) (CONFIG_EXT2_FS ext2.o)
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>5.2.3. USB support</H3
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> Support for USB (CONFIG_USB usbcore.o)</SPAN
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Preliminary USB device filesystem (CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS)
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USB Mass Storage support (CONFIG_USB_STORAGE usb-storage.o)
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>5.3. Notes</H2
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> In the lists above the entities in uppercase refer to the
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variable names to be found in the <TT
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>.config</TT
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>
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file in the upper level directory of the kernel source (<TT
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>/usr/src/linux/</TT
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>). The entities
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<TT
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>xxx.o</TT
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> refer to the modules created when a
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modular approach is followed. When there is no reference to a
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module, the option can only be hard-compiled into the kernel.
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> Different kernel versions may have different indications of
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options when, for example, <EM
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>make menuconfig</EM
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or <EM
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> make xconfig</EM
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> are run. Variables such
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as CONFIG_USB, which can be gleaned from the various <EM
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> help</EM
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> options, may be a more reliable indication.
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</P
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> Very recent Linux distributions such as
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<EM
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>RedHat</EM
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> and <EM
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>SuSE</EM
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probably have the appropriate kernel options compiled in.
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</P
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> Under USB-support, options for a number of digital cameras are
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available.
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</P
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> Please consult the relevant texts as set out in
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<A
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>Section 4</A
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> if you consider (re)compiling your
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