[wellylug] mdk 10 - 2.6 kernel + bluetooth + usb2

[Brenda O'Hagan]

On Thu, 27 May 2004 15:15, Sam Cannell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 14:56, Brenda O'Hagan wrote:
> > how do you find out what a kernel rpm supports?? is there some way to
> > query, or do you need to install and boot it?
>
> Later (all?) 2.6 kernels support embedding the .config file inside the
> binary kernel itself.  You may have noticed that when you are running a
> 2.6 kernel and configure a fresh 2.6 kernel source tree it automagically
> selects the options you have in your currently booted kernel.
>
> The two configure options are CONFIG_IKCONFIG and CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC,
> listed under General Setup.
>
> Get a 2.6 source tree, and have a look at scripts/extract-ikconfig under
> the root of the tree - it will extract the .config file from a binary
> kernel, assuming it was compiled with the relevant option.
>
> You can then either examine the .config file directly or drop it into
> /usr/src/linux/ (or wherever you extracted the kernel tarball to) and
> view or modify the configured options.

what i want to do it take a binary rpm: eg. kernel-2.6.3-4mdk.i586.rpm
and without installing or booting this kernel, I want to find out if bluez was 
turned on when it was complied..
anyone give my some basic step by step instructions on how to do this?