Translations:Handbook:Alpha/Blocks/Kernel/14/en

However, one thing is true: it is necessary to know the system when starting to configure a kernel manually. Most information can be gathered by emerging pciutils (emerge pciutils) which contains lspci. With that installed, users will now be able to use lspci within the chrooted environment. pcilib warnings (like pcilib: cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices) that lspci throws out can be safely ignored for now.