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- These are modules that can be loaded into the Linux kernel, providing extra
- support for mice, CD-ROM drives, ethernet cards, and other devices.
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- See these files in the "docs" directory for more information on loading these
- kernel modules: CDROM-HOWTO, ELF-HOWTO, Ethernet-HOWTO, Ftape-HOWTO, HAM-HOWTO,
- Hardware-HOWTO, Kernel-HOWTO, NET-2-HOWTO, PCI-HOWTO, PCMCIA-HOWTO, SCSI-HOWTO,
- SCSI-Programming-HOWTO, Serial-HOWTO, Sound-HOWTO, UMSDOS-HOWTO.
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- Also see the documentation in /usr/doc/modules, and the Documentation directory
- in newer Linux kernel source. (/usr/src/linux/Documentation)
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- As a simple example, this line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules will load the
- driver for a 3com 3c509b ethernet card (PnP mode on the card disabled):
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- /sbin/modprobe 3c509
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- Note that this must happen *before* using ifconfig on eth0 or setting up
- eth0 related routes!
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- Here's how this will look when you boot your machine:
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- INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
- Going multiuser...
- loading device 'eth0'...
- eth0: 3c509 at 0x360 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 28 ec a0, IRQ 10.
- 3c509.c:1.12 6/4/97 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
- eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
- Mounting remote file systems...
- Starting daemons: syslogd klogd portmap inetd lpd mountd nfsd
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- If you've installed the modules.tgz package, you'll have all of these modules
- installed on your machine under /lib/modules/2.0.34 already. So, to start
- using kernel modules you'll want to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file to
- select which modules you want loaded at boot time. You can also use kerneld,
- a daemon which load and unloads kernel modules automatically on demand.
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