Hi all, I trying to determine the difference between selecting a particular item as "*" or "M" when using menuconfig. I've read the URL here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/build?s[]=menuconfig
It says the following:
If you mark with a '*', the package will be built into the firmware you create.
If you mark it with just an 'M', the package will be built but not installed.
This is consistent with the behavior I'm seeing. Things that I mark as "M" don't show up in the firmware. For example, if I build the Alix-X86 profile but select "kmod_pcnet32" as "M", then the pcnet32 package doesn't seem to be included when I boot the resulting firmware image.
Is it actually included and I need to do something special to load it? Or is it not included at all and my only option is to select "*"?
Thanks in advance.