EISA support in kernel

[gcb]

i have an athlon 950 pc, which has a 'fairly' recent system board...there is 1 ISA slot on the board & the rest are PCI...when compiling a kernel, do i need to compile EISA support into the kernel? it says to answer yes if it is a EISA-based machine...but would that be considered EISA-based? i assumed it was PCI-based but i really don't know...anyone? thanks.

[bdg1983]

The option for EISA is for EISA and not ISA.

Look under the first option.

#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y

[gcb]

so, if i don't compile EISA support into my kernel, my ISA modem will still work, right? so EISA is completely different from ISA and isn't just a addon like the 16-bit slot was to the 8-bit ISA?

[bdg1983]

I can't guarantee your modem will work ;) , but you do not need EISA support.

The modem configuration is up to you.

[gcb]

well my modem is working on my current kernel...which i didn't compile, mandrake did...so it should still work...

cool. thanks, man.

[bdg1983]

Glad to help. Good luck.