Re: Ease of hardware configuration

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:27:34PM -0600, Josh Hansen wrote:
> 	Now here comes the radical part (ok, so all of this is somewhat radical): the 
> configuration utility connects to a server such as linuxdevicedrivers.org or 
> some other slick domain name and downloads the appropriate kernel module 
> binaries for the hardware based on kernel version number and architecture 
> (example: nVidia GeForce module for kernel 2.4.13 on i386, or USB Scanner 
> module for kernel 2.4.4 on PowerPC). Once the module is obtained, it is 
> loaded into the kernel (with explicit IO/IRQ parameters for older hardware if 
> necessary).
> 	Once the module is loaded, the utility quits.

Please check out the linux-hotplug package:
	http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/

It does most of what you are talking about right now.  And if it's
missing anything that you want, feel free to contribute :) 

thanks,

greg k-h