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- Linux Module-HOWTO
- Lauri Tischler, Editor.
- v1.1, 20 October 1996
-
- This is the Module-HOWTO, which is a compilation of all the possible
- module parameters that can be passed to the Linux modules at load
- time. Information within is based on Linux Kernel version 2.0.23.
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- Inspiration for this paper came from Paul Gortmaker's excellent
- BootPrompt-HOWTO. With Paul's permission I have used his paper as a
- framework, upon which I have grafted my ramblings. Different parts of
- this paper have been shamelessly, without any permissions what so
- ever, ripped off from various README and *.txt files within The Source
- Tree. My sincere thanks for all the authors of those texts which have
- made this document possible.
-
- This paper generally follows the same structure/module order as the
- kernel configuration utility menuconfig when run in
- single_menu_mode=TRUE mode.
-
- All sections which are marked Modular in the configuration utility are
- included here, regardless whether they have option parameters or not.
-
- Each section follows the example outline below:
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ne.o io=0x300 irq=5
-
- io = 0 (Explicitly *requires* an "io=0xNNN" value)
- irq = 0 (Tries to determine configured IRQ via autoIRQ)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- The Module-HOWTO is edited and maintained by:
-
- Lauri Tischler, ltischler@efore.fi
-
- 1.1. Disclaimer and Copyright
-
- This document is not gospel. However, it is probably the most up to
- date info that you will be able to find. Nobody is responsible for
- what happens to your hardware but yourself. If your hardware goes up
- in smoke (...nearly impossible!) I take no responsibility. ie. THE
- AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED DUE TO ACTIONS
- TAKEN BASED ON THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT.
-
- This document is Copyright (c) 1996 by Lauri Tischler. Permisson is
- granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided
- the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all
- copies.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
- document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that this
- copyright notice is included exactly as in the original, and that the
- entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
- permission notice identical to this one.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
- document into another language, under the above conditions for
- modified versions.
-
- If you are intending to incorporate this document into a published
- work, please contact me, and I will make an effort to ensure that you
- have the most up to date information available. In the past, out of
- date versions of the Linux howto documents have been published, which
- caused the developers undue grief from being plagued with questions
- that were already answered in the up to date versions.
-
- 1.2. Related Documentation
-
- Following HOWTO's are highly recommended :
-
- ╖ BootPrompt-HOWTO by Paul Gortmaker (Paul.Gortmaker@anu.edu.au).
- New versions of this document can be retrieved via anonymous FTP
- from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/* and various Linux
- ftp mirror sites.
-
- ╖ kerneld mini-HOWTO by Henrik Storner (storner@osiris.ping.dk). The
- latest released version of this document can be found at
- http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/kerneld-mini-HOWTO.html. Between
- releases of the mini-HOWTO you can find updates on Henrik's
- unstructured list of changes at
- http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/kern.html.
-
- The file Documentation/Configure.help gives good general information
- about what parts of the kernel to modularize or not.
-
- Also plethora of various README files, sprinkled (unfortunately) all
- over The Source Tree are good and informative reading.
-
- The most up-to-date documentation will always be The Kernel Source
- itself. For example, if you were looking for what parameters could be
- passed to the smc-ultra ethernetcard, then you would go to the
- linux/drivers/net directory, and look at the file smc-ultra.c --
- usually somewhere in the end of the file you would find a procedure
- called init_module. Within this procedure or around it you will
- parameter and structure definitions related to module parameters.
-
- 1.3. The Linux Newsgroups
-
- If you have questions about passing parameters to modules at load
- time, please READ this document first. If this and the related
- documentation mentioned above does not answer your question(s) then
- you can try the Linux newsgroups.
-
- General questions on how to configure your system should be directed
- to comp.os.linux.setup. We ask that you please respect this general
- guideline for content, and don't cross-post your request to other
- groups.
-
- 1.4. New Versions of Document
-
- New versions of this document can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from
- sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/* and various Linux ftp
- mirror sites. Updates will be made as new information or drivers
- becomes available. If this copy that you are reading is more than 3
- months old, it is either out of date, or it means that I have been
- lazy and haven't updated it.
- This document was produced by using the SGML system that was
- specifically set up for the Linux Howto project, and there are various
- output formats available, including, postscript, dvi, ascii, html, and
- soon TeXinfo.
-
- I would recommend viewing it in the html (via a WWW browser) or the
- Postscript/dvi format. Both of these contain cross-references that are
- lost in the ascii translation.
-
- If you want to get the official copy off sunsite, here is URL.
-
- Module-HOWTO <http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO.html>
-
- 1.5. Experimental (alpha-code) modules or incomplete information.
-
- Here is a list of modules which are declared experimental in
- configuration scripts or otherwise have incomplete info or I'm just
- too dumb to understand The Source. Pick your choice.
-
- ╖ Support for JAVA binaries.
-
- ╖ Frame Relay DLCI driver.
-
- ╖ Sangoma S502A FRAD driver.
-
- ╖ BAYCOM driver for AX.25.
-
- ╖ WIC Radio IP Bridge.
-
- ╖ 3Com 3c505 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ 3Com 3c507 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ Allied Telesis AT1700 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ Intel Ether Express Pro driver.
-
- ╖ Fujitsu FMV-18x Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ NI 5210 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ Ansel Communications EISA 3200 Ethernet driver.
-
- ╖ Amiga FSS Filesystem.
-
- 1.6. History.
-
- ╖ Initial release 1.0, 20th June 1996.
-
- ╖ Release 1.1, 20th October 1996.
-
- 2. Module utilities
-
- Module utilities are a set of programs necessary for handling the
- modules. At the time of this writing, version of latest module
- utilities was modules-2.0.0.tar.gz. Info about latest current version
- can be found at http://www.pi.se/blox
-
- This information was originally provided by following gentlemen,
- Jacques Gelinas jacques@solucorp.qc.ca and Bj÷rn Ekwall bj0rn@blox.se
- in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt.
-
- 2.1. Making the modules
-
- Your first step is to compile the kernel, as explained in the file
- linux/README. It generally goes like:
-
- ╖ make config
-
- ╖ make dep
-
- ╖ make clean
-
- ╖ make zImage or make zlilo
-
- In make config, you select what you want to include in the resident
- kernel and what features you want to have available as loadable
- modules. You will generally select the minimal resident set that is
- needed to boot:
-
- ╖ The filesystem of your root partition
-
- ╖ A scsi driver
-
- ╖ Normal hard drive support
-
- ╖ Net support (CONFIG_NET)
-
- ╖ TCP/IP support (CONFIG_INET), but no drivers!
-
- ╖ plus those things that you just can't live without...
-
- The set of modules is constantly increasing, and you will be able to
- select the option m in make config for those features that the current
- kernel can offer as loadable modules.
-
- You also have a possibility to create modules that are less dependent
- on the kernel version. This option can be selected during make
- config, by enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, and is most useful on stable
- kernel versions, such as the kernels from the 1.2 and 2.0 series. If
- you have modules that are based on sources that are not included in
- the official kernel sources, you will certainly like this option...
-
- When you have made the kernel, you create the modules by doing:
-
- make modules
-
- This will compile all modules and update the linux/modules directory.
- In this directory you will then find a bunch of symbolic links,
- pointing to the various object files in the kernel tree.
-
- Now, after you have created all your modules, you should also do:
-
- make modules_install
-
- This will copy all newly made modules into subdirectories under
- /lib/modules/kernel_release/, where kernel_release is something like
- 2.0.1, or whatever the current kernel version is...
-
- As soon as you have rebooted the newly made kernel, you can install
- and remove modules at will with the utilities: insmod and rmmod.
- After reading the man-page for insmod, you will also know how easy it
- is to configure a module when you do insmod (hint: symbol=value).
-
- 2.2. Extended utilities, modprobe and depmod.
-
- You also have access to two utilities: modprobe and depmod, where
- modprobe is a wrapper for (or extension to) insmod. These utilities
- use (and maintain) a set of files that describe all the modules that
- are available for the current kernel in the /lib/modules hierarchy as
- well as their interdependencies.
-
- Using the modprobe utility, you can load any module like this:
-
- /sbin/modprobe module
-
- without paying much attention to which kernel you are running, or what
- other modules this module depends on.
-
- With the help of the modprobe configuration file: /etc/conf.modules
- you can tune the behaviour of modprobe in many ways, including an
- automatic setting of insmod options for each module. And, yes, there
- are man-pages for all this...
-
- To use modprobe successfully, you generally place the following
- command in your /etc/rc.d/rc.S script. (Read more about this in the
- rc.hints file in the module utilities package, modules-x.y.z.tar.gz.)
-
- /sbin/depmod -a
-
- This computes the dependencies between the different modules. Then if
- you do, for example
-
- /sbin/modprobe umsdos
-
- you will automatically load both the msdos and umsdos modules, since
- umsdos runs piggyback on msdos.
-
- 2.3. The ultimate utility, kerneld.
-
- OK, you have read all of the above, and feel amply impressed... Now,
- we tell you to forget all about how to install and remove loadable
- modules...
-
- With the kerneld daemon, all of these chores will be taken care of
- automatically. Just answer "Y" to CONFIG_KERNELD in make config, and
- make sure that /sbin/kerneld is started as soon as possible after boot
- and that /sbin/depmod -a has been executed for the current kernel.
- (Read more about this in the module utilities package.)
-
- Whenever a program wants the kernel to use a feature that is only
- available as a loadable module, and if the kernel hasn't got the
- module installed yet, the kernel will ask the kerneld deamon to take
- care of the situation and make the best of it.
-
- This is what happens:
-
- ╖ The kernel notices that a feature is requested that is not resident
- in the kernel.
-
- ╖ The kernel sends a message to kerneld, with a symbolic description
- of the requested feature.
-
- ╖ The kerneld daemon asks e.g. modprobe to load a module that fits
- this symbolic description.
-
- ╖ Modprobe looks into its internal alias translation table to see if
- there is a match. This table can be reconfigured and expanded by
- having alias lines in /etc/conf.modules.
-
- ╖ Insmod is then asked to insert the module(s) that modprobe has
- decided that the kernel needs. Every module will be configured
- according to the options lines in /etc/conf.modules.
-
- ╖ Modprobe exits and kerneld tells the kernel that the request
- succeded (or failed...)
-
- ╖ The kernel uses the freshly installed feature just as if it had
- been configured into the kernel as a resident part.
-
- The icing of the cake is that when an automatically installed module
- has been unused for a period of time (usually 1 minute), the module
- will be automatically removed from the kernel as well.
-
- This makes the kernel use the minimal amount of memory at any given
- time, making it available for more productive use than as just a
- placeholder for unused code.
-
- Actually, this is only a side-effect from the real benefit of kerneld:
- You only have to create a minimal kernel, that is more or less
- independent of the actual hardware setup. The setup of the virtual
- kernel is instead controlled by a configuration file as well as the
- actual usage pattern of the current machine and its kernel.
-
- This should be good news for maintainers of multiple machines as well
- as for maintainers of distributions.
-
- To use kerneld with the least amount of hassle, you need modprobe from
- a release that can be considered recent w.r.t. your kernel, and also a
- configuration file for modprobe (/etc/conf.modules).
-
- Since modprobe already knows about most modules, the minimal
- configuration file could look something like this:
-
- alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542 # or whatever SCSI adapter you have
- alias eth0 3c509 # or whatever net adapter you have
-
- # you might need an "options" line for some net adapters:
- options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
-
- # you might also need an "options" line for some other module:
- options cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x1f88 sony_pas_init=1
-
- You could add these lines as well, but they are only cosmetic:
-
- alias net-pf-3 off # no ax25 module available (yet)
- alias net-pf-4 off # if you don't use the ipx module
- alias net-pf-5 off # if you don't use the appletalk module
-
- Finally, for the purists: You can name the modprobe configuration
- either /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf, since modprobe knows
- what to do in each case...
-
- 3. General Kernel setup
-
- Note: you can't have both a.out and ELF support compiled as modules.
- Otherwise, you get a nice Catch-22 when you try to run insmod to
- install a.out/ELF support so you can run insmod ;-). If you have an
- all-ELF system, but need a.out for the occasional Netscape session,
- then you can do a.out support as a module. Otherwise, you should
- probably leave it in the kernel, and if you haven't gone ELF yet, you
- can probably leave out ELF compleately.
-
- 3.1. Kernel support for a.out binaries (binfmt_aout.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe binfmt_aout.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 3.2. Kernel support for ELF binaries (binfmt_elf.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe binfmt_elf.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 3.3. Kernel support for JAVA binaries (binfmt_java.o).
-
- JAVA is an object oriented programming language developed by SUN; JAVA
- programs are compiled into "JAVA bytecode" which can then be
- interpreted by run time systems on many different operating systems.
- These JAVA binaries are becoming a universal executable format. This
- option allows you to run a Java binary just like any other Linux
- program: by typing in its name.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe binfmt_java.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 4. Floppy and other block devices.
-
- 4.1. The Floppy Disk Driver (floppy.o).
-
- There are many floppy driver options, and they are all listed in
- README.fd in linux/drivers/block. For detailed, up to date,
- information refer directly to this file.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe floppy.o 'floppy="<options>"'
-
- Option explanations below..
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- mask,allowed_drive_mask - Sets the bitmask of allowed drives
- to mask. By default, only units 0 and 1 of each floppy controller are
- allowed. This is done because certain non-standard hardware (ASUS PCI
- motherboards) mess up the keyboard when accessing units 2 or 3. This
- option is somewhat obsoleted by the cmos option.
-
- all_drives - Sets the bitmask of allowed drives to all drives. Use
- this if you have more than two drives connected to a floppy
- controller.
-
- asus_pci - Sets the bitmask to allow only units 0 and 1. (The
- default)
-
- daring - Tells the floppy driver that you have a well behaved floppy
- controller. This allows more efficient and smoother operation, but
- may fail on certain controllers. This may speed up certain
- operations.
-
- 0,daring - Tells the floppy driver that your floppy controller should
- be used with caution.
- one_fdc - Tells the floppy driver that you have only floppy controller
- (default)
-
- two_fdc or address,two_fdc - Tells the floppy driver that you have two
- floppy controllers. The second floppy controller is assumed to be at
- address. This option is not needed if the second controller is at
- address 0x370, and if you use the 'cmos' option
-
- thinkpad - Tells the floppy driver that you have a Thinkpad. Thinkpads
- use an inverted convention for the disk change line.
-
- 0,thinkpad - Tells the floppy driver that you don't have a Thinkpad.
-
- omnibook or nodma - Tells the floppy driver not to use Dma for data
- transfers. This is needed on HP Omnibooks, which don't have a
- workable DMA channel for the floppy driver. This option is also useful
- if you frequently get "Unable to allocate DMA memory" messages.
- Indeed, dma memory needs to be continuous in physical, and is thus
- harder to find, whereas non-dma buffers may be allocated in virtual
- memory. However, I advise against this if you have an FDC without a
- FIFO (8272A or 82072). 82072A and later are OK. You also need at least
- a 486 to use nodma. If you use nodma mode, I suggest you also set the
- FIFO threshold to 10 or lower, in order to limit the number of data
- transfer interrupts.
-
- dma - Tells the floppy driver that a workable DMA channel is available
- (the default).
-
- nofifo - Disables the FIFO entirely. This is needed if you get "Bus
- master arbitration error" messages from your ethernet card (or from
- other devices) while accessing the floppy.
-
- fifo - Enables the FIFO (default)
-
- [threshold],fifo_depth - Sets the FIFO threshold. This is mostly
- relevant in DMA mode. If this is higher, the floppy driver tolerates
- more interrupt latency, but it triggers more interrupts (i.e. it
- imposes more load on the rest of the system). If this is lower, the
- interrupt latency should be lower too (faster processor). The benefit
- of a lower threshold is less interrupts.
-
- To tune the fifo threshold, switch on over/underrun messages using
- 'floppycontrol --messages'. Then access a floppy disk. If you get a
- huge amount of "Over/Underrun - retrying" messages, then the fifo
- threshold is too low. Try with a higher value, until you only get an
- occasional Over/Underrun. It is a good idea to compile the floppy
- driver as a module when doing this tuning. Indeed, it allows to try
- different fifo values without rebooting the machine for each test.
- Note that you need to do 'floppycontrol --messages' every time you re-
- insert the module. Usually, tuning the fifo threshold should not be
- needed, as the default (0xa) is reasonable.
-
- [drive],[type],cmos - Sets the CMOS type of drive to type. This is
- mandatory if you have more than two floppy drives (only two can be
- described in the physical CMOS), or if your BIOS uses non-standard
- CMOS types. The CMOS types are:
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- 0 - Use the value of the physical CMOS
- 1 - 5 1/4 DD
- 2 - 5 1/4 HD
- 3 - 3 1/2 DD
- 4 - 3 1/2 HD
- 5 - 3 1/2 ED
- 6 - 3 1/2 ED
- 16 - unknown or not installed
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- (Note: there are two valid types for ED drives. This is because 5 was
- initially chosen to represent floppy *tapes*, and 6 for ED drives.
- AMI ignored this, and used 5 for ED drives. That's why the floppy
- driver handles both)
-
- unexpected_interrupts - Print a warning message when an unexpected
- interrupt is received (default behavior)
-
- no_unexpected_interrupts or L40SX - Don't print a message when an
- unexpected interrupt is received. This is needed on IBM L40SX laptops
- in certain video modes. (There seems to be an interaction between
- video and floppy. The unexpected interrupt only affect performance,
- and can safely be ignored.)
-
- 4.2. Loopback block device support (loop.o).
-
- Enabling this option will allow you to mount a file as a file system.
- This is useful if you want to check an ISO9660 file system before
- burning the CD, or want to use floppy images without first writing
- them to floppy.
-
- This option also allows one to mount a filesystem with encryption. To
- use these features, you need a recent version of mount and other
- patches for DES and IDEA. They can be found at
- http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/linuxkernel/patches. Note that this
- loop device has nothing to do with the loopback device used for
- network connections from the machine to itself.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe loop.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 4.3. Multiple devices driver support (RAID).
-
- This driver lets you combine several harddisk partitions into one
- logical block device.
-
- Tools that can be used to manage md devices can be found at sweet-
- smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/md035.tar.gz. Same location
- contains also a document md-FAQ.
-
- There are various levels of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or
- Independent) Disks defined.
-
- ╖ RAID-0, Data striped across all disks. No error checking.
-
- Pros.
- Best RAID data transfer rate. Transparent to system software.
-
- Cons.
- No error checking or redundancy. The failure of one drive in the
- array results in the loss of all data stored in the array. Any
- MTBF calculation must really be recalculated.
-
- ╖ RAID-1, Disk Mirroring.
-
- Pros.
- No write penalty. 100% data redundancy. No performace penalty
- after failure.
-
- Cons.
- 100% cost overhead. Requires 2x disk space and power compared to
- non-arrayed system.
-
- ╖ RAID-5, Sector-oriented striping of data and parity.
-
- Pros.
- Good performance for transaction processing systems. No write
- overhead as in RAID-4. Storage overhead is maximum of one disk.
- Can read in parallel across the array.
-
- Cons.
- Performance degradation during data reconstruction.
-
- ╖ RAID-6, Mirrored RAID-0 array.
-
- Pros.
- RAID data transfer rate comparable to RAID-0. 100% data
- redundancy. No performace penalty after failure.
-
- Cons.
- 100% cost overhead. Requires 2x disk space and power compared to
- non-arrayed system.
-
- Only RAID-0 is available for Linux at the moment. Linear mode is not
- considered as part of RAID definition. The Raid Advisory Board does
- not consider RAID-0 to be part of RAID definition either, due to
- missing data redundancy.
-
- Usefull modes for implementation are RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5 and
- RAID-6.
-
- 4.3.1. Multiple device in Linear (append) mode (linear.o).
-
- If you use this, then your multiple devices driver will be able to use
- the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the harddisk
- partitions by simply appending one to the other.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe linear.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 4.3.2. Multiple device in RAID-0 (striped) mode (raid0.o).
-
- If you use this, then your multiple devices driver will be able to use
- the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the harddisk partitions
- into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them up evenly,
- one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase the throughput
- rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe raid0.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 4.4. RAM disk support (rd.o).
-
- Enabling this option will allow you to use a portion of your RAM
- memory as a block device, so that you can make filesystems on it, read
- and write to it and do all the other things that normal block devices
- (such as harddrives) can do. It is usually used to load and store a
- copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM during the
- initial install of Linux.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe rd.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 4.5. XT harddisk support (xd.o).
-
- Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer. No,
- the existence of XT disk support does NOT mean that you can run Linux
- on an IBM XT :).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe xd.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 5. General TCP/IP and Networking options.
-
- 5.1. IP Tunneling (ipip.o and new_tunnel.o).
-
- Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within another
- protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
- encapsulating protocol. Two modules are necessary ipip.o, IP/IP
- protocol decoder, and new_tunnel.o driver, (this was previously called
- tunnel.o and the documentation still refers to this name).
- Documentation is found at /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.tunnel.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load commands:
- /sbin/modprobe ipip.o
- /sbin/modprobe new_tunnel.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 5.2. IP Aliasing support (ip_alias.o).
-
- Sometimes it is useful to give several addresses to a single network
- interface (= serial port or ethernet card). The most common case is
- that you want to serve different WWW documents to the outside
- according to which of your host names they used to connect to you.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ip_alias.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 5.3. IP Reverse ARP (rarp.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe rarp.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 5.4. IPX Protocol (ipx.o).
-
- This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly used
- for local networks of DOS and Windows machines.
-
- IPX protocol is required if :
-
- ╖ You wish to connect to Netware servers using Linux DOS emulator
- DOSEMU.
-
- ╖ You wish to mount Netware volumes as Linux filesystems using Linux
- Novell client ncpfs.
-
- ╖ You wish to connect to Linux server from Netware client, or mount
- Linux directories as Netware volumes. There are two daemons for
- this purpose, linwared and nwserv.
-
- Homesite for ncpfs is ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs, but sunsite
- and its many mirrors will have it as well.
-
- Linware's home site is klokan.sh.cvut.cz/pub/linux/linware,
-
- nwserv package Mars_nwe is also on ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ipx.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 5.5. Appletalk DDP (appletalk.o).
-
- Appletalk is the way Apple computers speak to each other on a network.
- EtherTalk is the name used for appletalk over ethernet and Localtalk
- is appletalk over the apple serial links.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe appletalk.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6. SCSI Support.
-
- The scsi support in the linux kernel can be modularized in a number of
- different ways depending upon the needs of the end user. To
- understand your options, we should first define a few terms.
-
- The scsi-core contains the core of scsi support. Without it you can
- do nothing with any of the other scsi drivers. The scsi core support
- can be a module (scsi_mod.o), or it can be build into the kernel. If
- the core is a module, it must be the first scsi module loaded, and if
- you unload the modules, it will have to be the last one unloaded.
-
- The individual upper and lower level drivers can be loaded in any
- order once the scsi core is present in the kernel (either compiled in
- or loaded as a module). The disk driver (sd_mod.o), cdrom driver
- (sr_mod.o), tape driver (st.o) and scsi generics driver (sg.o)
- represent the upper level drivers to support the various assorted
- devices which can be controlled. You can for example load the tape
- driver to use the tape drive, and then unload it once you have no
- further need for the driver (and release the associated memory).
-
- The lower level drivers are the ones that support the individual cards
- that are supported for the hardware platform that you are running
- under. Examples are aha1542.o to drive Adaptec 1542 cards.
-
- 6.1. SCSI Required Core Support.
-
- 6.1.1. SCSI Core support (scsi_mod.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe scsi_mod.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.2. SCSI High level support.
-
- 6.2.1. SCSI Disk support (sd_mod.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sd_mod.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.2.2. SCSI Tape support (st.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe st.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.2.3. SCSI CDrom support (sr_mod.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sr_mod.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.2.4. SCSI generic support (sg.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sg.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3. SCSI Low Level Device Driver Support.
-
- Most SCSI-card drivers don't support module parameters, they do
- generally autoprobe for card settings. Do read the SCSI-HOWTO
- document and README files in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi to to find
- out about your hardware. If your card is located in some
- unconventional i/o-address you must load the driver permanently into
- the kernel and use Boottime options, see BootPrompt-HOWTO. Optionally
- you can twiddle The Source and recompile.
-
- 6.3.1. 7000FASST SCSI support (wd7000.o),
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe wd7000.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.2. Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support (aha154x.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe aha154x.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.3. Adaptec AHA1542 support (aha1542.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe aha1542.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes card at 0x330 and 0x334 only.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.4. Adaptec AHA1740 EISA support (aha1740.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe aha1740.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.5. Adaptec AHA274X/284X/294X support (aic7xxx.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, BIOS must be enabled.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.6. AdvanSys SCSI support (advansys.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe advansys.o [parameters]
-
- asc_iopflag=1 enable=1, disable=0 port scanning
- asc_ioport=0x110,0x330 ports to scan
- asc_dbglvl=1 debugging level
- 0: Errors Only
- 1: High-Level Tracing
- 2-N: Verbose Tracing
-
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.7. Always IN2000 SCSI support (in2000.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe in2000.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, BIOS not required.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.8. BusLogic SCSI support (BusLogic.o).
-
- The list of supported BusLogic cards is long. Read
- usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.BusLogic to get the total picture.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe BusLogic.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.9. DTC3180/3280 SCSI support (dtc.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe dtc.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.10. EATA ISA/EISA (DPT PM2011/021/012/022/122/322) support
- (eata.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eata.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.11. EATA-DMA (DPT, NEC, AT&T, SNI, AST, Olivetti, Alphatronix)
- (eata_dma.o).
-
- Includes DPT Smartcache, Smartcache III and SmartRAID.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eata_dma.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobe works in all configurations.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.12. EATA-PIO (old DPT PM2001, PM2012A) support (eata_pio.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eata_pio.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.13. Future Domain 16xx SCSI support (fdomain.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe fdomain.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.14. Generic NCR5380/53c400 SCSI support (NCR5380.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe NCR5380.o
-
- ncr_irq=xx the interrupt
- ncr_addr=xx the port or base address (for port or
- memory mapped, resp.)
- ncr_dma=xx the DMA
- ncr_5380=1 to set up for a NCR5380 board
- ncr_53c400=1 to set up for a NCR53C400 board
-
- modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=5 ncr_addr=0x350 ncr_5380=1
- - for a port mapped NCR5380 board or
-
- modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=255 ncr_addr=0xc8000 ncr_53c400=1
- - for a memory mapped NCR53C400 board with interrupts disabled.
-
- (255 should be specified for no or DMA interrupt,
- 254 to autoprobe for an IRQ line if overridden on the command line.)
-
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.15. NCR53c406a SCSI support (NCR53c406a.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe NCR53c406a.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.16. NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support (53c7,8xx.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 53c7,8xx.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.17. PCI-SCSI NCR538xx family support (ncr53c8xx.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ncr53c8xx.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.18. IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support (ppa.o).
-
- Check file /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ppa for detailed
- information.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ppa.o ppa_base=0x378 ppa_nybble=1
-
- Here are the parameters and their functions:
-
- Variable Default Description
-
- ppa_base 0x378 The base address of PPA's parallel port.
- ppa_speed_high 1 Microsecond i/o delay used in data transfers
- ppa_speed_low 6 Microsecond delay used in other operations
- ppa_nybble 0 1 to force the driver to use 4-bit mode.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.19. PAS16 SCSI support(pas16.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe pas16.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, BIOS not required.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.20. Qlogic FAS SCSI support (qlogicfas.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe qlogicfas.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.21. Qlogic ISP SCSI support (qlogicisp.o).
-
- Requires firmware.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe qlogicisp.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.22. (seagate.o). Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-8xx SCSI
- support
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe seagate.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes for address only, irq fixed at 5.
- Requires installed BIOS.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.23. Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support (t128.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe t128.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.24. UltraStor 14F/34F support (u14-34f.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe u14-34f.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Autoprobes the card, NOT 0x310 port, BIOS not required.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 6.3.25. UltraStor SCSI support (ultrastor.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ultrastor.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7. Network device support
-
- 7.1. Required and/or optional lowlevel modules.
-
- 7.1.1. Optional BSD compressor for PPP (bsd_comp.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe bsd_comp.o
-
- No module parameters.
-
- Depends on ppp.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.1.2. SLHC compressor for PPP (slhc.o).
-
- Routines to compress and uncompress tcp packets (for transmission over
- low speed serial lines).
-
- Required by SLIP and PPP (also ISDN-PPP) protocols.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe slhc.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.1.3. A general NS8390 ethernet driver core for linux.(8390.o).
-
- This is the chip-specific code for many 8390-based ethernet adaptors.
- This is not a complete driver, it must be combined with board-specific
- code such as ne.o, wd.o, 3c503.o, etc.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 8390.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.2. Dummy net driver support (dummy.o).
-
- This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to this
- device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP address. It
- is most commonly used in order to make your currently inactive SLIP
- address seem like a real address for local programs.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe dummy.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.3. EQL (serial line load balancing) support (eql.o).
-
- If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
- usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use SLIP
- (= the protocol for sending internet traffic over telephone lines) or
- PPP (= a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like one
- double speed connection using this driver.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eql.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.4. Frame relay DLCI support (dlci.o).
-
- This is support for the frame relay protocol; frame relay is a fast
- low-cost way to connect to a remote internet access provider or to
- form a private wide area network. The one physical line from your box
- to the local "switch" (i.e. the entry point to the frame relay
- network) can carry several logical point-to-point connections to other
- computers connected to the frame relay network. For a general
- explanation of the protocol, check out http://frame-
- relay.indiana.edu/4000/4000index.html on the WWW. To use frame relay,
- you need supporting hardware (FRAD) and certain programs from the net-
- tools package as explained in Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe dlci.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.5. Sangoma S502A FRAD support (sdla.o).
-
- This is a driver for the Sangoma S502A, S502E and S508 Frame Relay
- Access Devices. These are multi-protocol cards, but only frame relay
- is supported by the driver at this time. Please read
- Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sdla.o
-
- No module parameters.
-
- Depends on dlci.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.6. PLIP (parallel port) support (plip.o).
-
- PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a mini
- network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) local machines. The
- parallel ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are
- connected using "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can
- transmit 4 bits at a time or using special PLIP cables, to be used on
- bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a time
- (you can find the wiring of these cables in drivers/net/README?.plip).
- The cables can be up to 15m long. This works also if one of the
- machines runs DOS/Windows and has some PLIP software installed, e.g.
- the Crynwr PLIP packet driver
- http://sunsite.cnam.fr/packages/Telnet/PC/msdos/misc/pktdrvr.txt and
- winsock or NCSA's telnet.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe plip.o io=0x378 irq=7
-
- io = 0
- irq = 0 (by default, uses IRQ 5 for port at 0x3bc,
- IRQ 7 for port at 0x378,
- and IRQ 2 for port at 0x278)
- (Probes ports: 0x278, 0x378, 0x3bc)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.7. PPP (point-to-point) support (ppp.o).
-
- To use PPP you need an additional program called pppd as described in
- Documentation/networking/ppp.txt and in the PPP-HOWTO, available from
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ppp.o
-
- No module parameters.
-
- Depends on slhc.o
- Also depends on serial.o, this is not detected automatically,
- so serial.o must be loaded manually.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.8. SLIP (serial line) support (slip.o).
-
- SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) is the protocol used to send
- Internet traffic over telephone lines or serial cables (also known as
- nullmodems).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe slip.o
-
- slip_maxdev = 256 (default value from SL_NRUNIT on slip.h)
-
- Depends on slhc.o
- Also depends on serial.o, this is not detected automatically,
- so serial.o must be loaded manually.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.9. Amateur Radio and wireless network interfaces.
-
- 7.9.1. (baycom.o). BAYCOM ser12 and par96 kiss emulation driver for
- AX.25
-
- This is a driver for Baycom style simple amateur radio modems that
- connect to either a serial interface or a parallel interface. The
- driver supports the ser12 and par96 designs. To configure the driver,
- use the setbaycom utility available from
- http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/ham/ham.html#lnxbay. For
- informations on the modems, see http://www.baycom.de and
- drivers/char/README.baycom.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe baycom.o modem=1 iobase=0x3f8 irq=4 options=1
-
- major major number the driver should use; default 60
- modem modem type of the first channel (minor 0); 1=ser12,
- 2=par96/par97, any other value invalid
- iobase base address of the port; common values are for ser12 0x3f8,
- 0x2f8, 0x3e8, 0x2e8 and for par96/par97 0x378, 0x278, 0x3bc
- irq interrupt line of the port; common values are for ser12 3,4
- and for par96/par97 7
- options 0=use hardware DCD, 1=use software DCD
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.9.2. STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP) strip.o).
-
- STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
- (http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/) to send Internet traffic using
- Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery powered,
- 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and weight of a
- cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called "Metricom
- modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads many people
- into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a phone line and
- use it as a modem.) You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a
- serial port, although it is obviously most useful for people with
- laptop computers.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe strip.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.9.3. WaveLAN support (wavelan.o).
-
- These are cards for wireless ethernet-like networking. Supported are
- AT&T GIS and NCR WaveLAN cards.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe wavelan.o
-
- io = 0x390 (Settable, but change not recommended)
- irq = 0 (Not honoured, if changed..)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.9.4. WIC Radio IP bridge (wic.o).
-
- Support for the WIC parallel port radio bridge.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe wic.o
-
- It appears that devices 'wic0', 'wic1' and 'wic2' have direct
- relations to corresponding 'lpx' ports.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.9.5. Z8530 SCC kiss emulation driver for AX.25 (scc.o).
-
- These cards are used to connect your Linux box to an amateur radio in
- order to communicate with other computers. If you want to use this,
- read Documentation/networking/z8530drv.txt and the HAM-HOWTO.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe scc.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10. 3COM Ethernet cards.
-
- 7.10.1. 3c501 support (3c501.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c501.o
-
- io = 0x280 IO base address
- irq = 5 IRQ
- (Probes ports: 0x280, 0x300)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10.2. 3c503 support (3c503.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c503.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)
- xcvr = 0 (Use xcvr=1 to select external transceiver.)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x310, 0x330, 0x350, 0x250, 0x280, 0x2A0,0x2E0)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10.3. 3c505 support (3c505.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c505.o
-
- io = 0x300
- irq = 0
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x310)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10.4. 3c507 support (3c507.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c507.o
-
- io = 0x300
- irq = 0
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10.5. 3c509/3c579 support (3c509.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c509.o
-
- io = 0
- irq = 0
- ( Module load-time probing Works reliably only on EISA, ISA ID-PROBE
- IS NOT RELIABLE! Compile this driver statically into kernel for
- now, if you need it auto-probing on an ISA-bus machine. )
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.10.6. 3c590 series "Vortex" support (3c59x.o).
-
- Provides support for folloving cards :
-
- ╖ 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps.
-
- ╖ 3c595 Vortex 100baseTX.
-
- ╖ 3c595 Vortex 100baseT4.
-
- ╖ 3c595 Vortex 100base-MII.
-
- ╖ EISA Vortex 3c597.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe 3c59x.o debug=1 options=0,,12
-
- This sets the debug message level to minimal messages,
- sets the first card to the 10baseT transceiver, the second
- to the EEPROM-set transceiver, and the third card to operate
- in full-duplex mode using its 100baseTx transceiver.
- (Note: card ordering is set by the PCI BIOS.)
-
- Possible media type settings
- 0 10baseT
- 1 10Mbs AUI
- 2 undefined
- 3 10base2 (BNC)
- 4 100base-TX
- 5 100base-FX
- 6 MII (not yet available)
- 7 <Use default setting>
-
- 8 Full-duplex bit
- 8 10baseT full-duplex
- 12 100baseTx full-duplex
- 16 Bus-master enable bit (experimental use only!)
-
- Details of the device driver implementation are at the top of
- the source file.
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.11. Western Digital/SMC Ethernet cards.
-
- 7.11.1. WD80*3 support (wd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe wd.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ val. read from EEPROM, ancient cards use autoIRQ)
- mem = 0 (Force shared-memory on address 0xC8000, or whatever..)
- mem_end = 0 (Force non-std. mem. size via supplying mem_end val.)
- (eg. for 32k WD8003EBT, use mem=0xd0000 mem_end=0xd8000
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x240)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.11.2. SMC Ultra/EtherEZ support (smc-ultra.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe smc-ultra.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ val. read from EEPROM)
- (Probes ports: 0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x280, 0x300, 0x340, 0x380)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.11.3. SMC 9194 support (smc9194.o).
-
- This is a driver for SMC's 9000 series of Ethernet cards.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe smc9194.o
-
- io = 0 for the base address
- irq = 0 for the IRQ
- ifport = 0 for autodetect, 1 for TP, 2 for AUI ( or 10base2 )
-
- Probes ports: 0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2C0, 0x2E0,
- 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3A0, 0x3C0, 0x3E0
-
- Debug level setable in smc9194.c driver code.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12. Other Ethernet cards.
-
- 7.12.1. AT1700 support (at1700.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe at1700.o
-
- io = 0x260
- irq = 0
-
- (Probes ports: 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x240, 0x340, 0x320, 0x380, 0x300)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.2. Cabletron E21xx support (e2100.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe e2100.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ software selected by driver)
- mem = 0 (Override default shared memory start of 0xd0000)
- xcvr = 0 (Use xcvr=1 to select external transceiver.)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x220)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.3. DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support (depca.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe depca.o
-
- io = 0x200
- irq = 7
- (Probes ports: ISA: 0x300, 0x200;
- EISA: 0x0c00 )
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.4. EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support (ewrk3.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ewrk3.o
-
- io = 0x300
- irq = 5
- (With module no autoprobing!
- On EISA-bus does EISA probing.
- Static linkage probes ports on ISA bus:
- 0x100, 0x120, 0x140, 0x160, 0x180, 0x1A0, 0x1C0,
- 0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2C0, 0x2E0,
- 0x300, 0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3A0, 0x3C0)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.5. EtherExpress 16 support (eexpress.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eexpress.o
-
- io = 0x300
- irq = 0 (IRQ value read from EEPROM)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x270, 0x320, 0x340)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.6. EtherExpressPro support (eepro.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eepro.o
-
- io = 0x200
- irq = 0
- (Probes ports: 0x200, 0x240, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.7. Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184 support (fmv18x.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe fmv18x.o
-
- io = 0x220 for the base address
- irq = 0 for the IRQ
-
- Probes ports: 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x2c0, 0x300, 0x340
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.8. HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support (hp-plus.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe hp-plus.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ read from configuration register)
- (Probes ports: 0x200, 0x240, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.9. HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support (hp.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe hp.o
-
- io = 0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x200, 0x240)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.10. HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support (hp100.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe hp100.o
-
- hp100_port = 0 (IO-base address)
-
- (Does EISA-probing, if on EISA-slot;
- On ISA-bus probes all ports from 0x100 thru to 0x3E0
- in increments of 0x020)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.11. ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support (eth16i.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe eth16i.o
-
- io = 0x2a0 (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
- irq = 0 (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)
-
- Probed ports on eth16i card :
- 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x240, 0x340, 0x320, 0x380, 0x300
-
- Probed ports in eth32i card :
- 0x1000, 0x2000, 0x3000, 0x4000, 0x5000, 0x6000, 0x7000, 0x8000,
- 0x9000, 0xA000, 0xB000, 0xC000, 0xD000, 0xE000, 0xF000
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.12. NE2000/NE1000 support (ne.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ne.o
-
- io = 0 (Explicitly *requires* an "io=0xNNN" value)
- irq = 0 (Tries to determine configured IRQ via autoIRQ)
- (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.12.13. NI5210 support (ni52.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ni52.o
-
- io=0x360
- irq=9
- memstart=0xd0000
- memend=0xd4000
-
- Don't use autoprobing, io=0
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.13. EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
-
- 7.13.1. Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (ac3200.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ac3200.o
-
- As this is an EISA board, Autoprobe should work.
-
- Depends on 8390.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.13.2. Apricot Xen-II on board ethernet (apricot.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe apricot.o
-
- io = 0x300 (Can't be altered!)
- irq = 10
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.13.3. DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450, DE500 support (de4x5.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe de4x5.o
-
- io = 0x000b
- irq = 10
- is_not_dec = 0
- For non-DEC card using DEC 21040/21041/21140 chip, set this to 1
- (EISA, and PCI probing)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.13.4. DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support (tulip.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe tulip.o
-
- Read Documentation/networking/tulip.txt
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.13.5. Digi Intl. RightSwitch SE-X support (dgrs.o).
-
- This is a Linux driver for the Digi International RightSwitch SE-X
- EISA and PCI boards. These are 4 (EISA) or 6 (PCI) port ethernet
- switches and a NIC combined into a single board.
-
- There is a tool for setting up input and output packet filters on each
- port, called "dgrsfilt".
-
- The management tool lets you watch the performance graphically, as
- well as set the SNMP agent IP and IPX addresses, IEEE Spanning Tree,
- and Aging time. These can also be set from the command line when the
- driver is loaded.
-
- There is also a companion management tool, called "xrightswitch".
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe dgrs.o
-
- debug=NNN Debug printing level
- dma=0/1 Disable/Enable DMA on PCI card
- spantree=0/1 Disable/Enable IEEE spanning tree
- hashexpire=NNN Change address aging time (default 300 seconds)
- ipaddr=A,B,C,D Set SNMP agent IP address i.e. 199,86,8,221
- ipxnet=NNN Set SNMP agent IPX network number
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.14. Pocket and portable adaptors
-
- 7.14.1. D-Link DE600 pocket adaptor support (de600.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe de600.o
-
- de600_debug = 0
- (On port 0x378, irq 7 -- lpt1; compile time configurable)
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.14.2. D-Link DE620 pocket adaptor support (de620.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe de620.o
-
- bnc = 0, utp = 0 <-- Force media by setting either.
- io = 0x378 (also compile-time configurable)
- irq = 7
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.15. Token Ring driver support
-
- 7.15.1. Tropic chipset based adaptor support (ibmtr.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ibmtr.o io=0xa20 irq=0
-
- io = 0xa20 You should not use auto-probing with insmod
- irq = 0
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 7.16. ARCnet support (arcnet.o).
-
- Read The Fine Information at
- /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt. Also Arcnet
- hardware information arcnet-hardware.txt is found in same place.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe arcnet.o io=0x300 irq=2 shmem=0xd0000
-
- You can name the device using something like "device=arc1"
- (for a second card) or "device=eth0" (for weird reasons) if you like.
-
- (When probing, looks at the following possible addresses:
- Suggested ones:
- 0x300, 0x2E0, 0x2F0, 0x2D0
- Other ones:
- 0x200, 0x210, 0x220, 0x230, 0x240, 0x250, 0x260, 0x270,
- 0x280, 0x290, 0x2A0, 0x2B0, 0x2C0,
- 0x310, 0x320, 0x330, 0x340, 0x350, 0x360, 0x370,
- 0x380, 0x390, 0x3A0, 0x3E0, 0x3F0 )
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 8. ISDN subsystem
-
- Setting up ISDN-networking is a complicated task. Read documentation
- found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn.
-
- 8.1. ISDN support (isdn.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe isdn.o
-
- No module parameters.
-
- Depends on slhc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 8.2. ICN 2B and 4B support (icn.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe icn.o [parameters]
-
- portbase=p membase=m icn_id=idstring [icn_id2=idstring2]
-
- p = portbase (default: 0x320)
- m = shared memory (default: 0xd0000)
-
- When using the ICN double card, you MUST define TWO idstrings.
- idstring must start with a character!
-
- Depends on isdn.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 8.3. PCBIT-D support (pcbit.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe pcbit.o
-
- mem = 0 default = 0xd0000
- irq = 0 default = 5
-
- Depends on isdn.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 8.4. Teles/NICCY1016PC/Creatix support (teles.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe teles.o io=.....
-
- io=m0,i0,p0,d0[,m1,i1,p1,d1 ... ,mn,in,pn,dn] teles_id=idstring
-
- m0 = shared memory of 1st card. (default: 0xd0000
- i0 = irq of 1st card. (default: 15)
- p0 = portbase of 1st card. (default: 0xd80)
- d0 = D-channel protocol of 1st card. 1=1TR6, 2=EDSS1 (default: 2)
-
- p1,i1,m1,d1 = Parameters of second card (defaults: none)
- pn,in,mn,d1 = Parameters of n'th card (up to 16 cards are supported)
-
- idstring = Driver-Id for accessing with utilities and identification
- when using a Line-monitor. (default: none) idstring must start with a character!
-
- The type of the card is determined by the port, irq and shared memory:
-
- port == 0, shared memory != 0 -> Teles S0-8
- port != 0, shared memory != 0 -> Teles S0-16.0
- port != 0, shared memory == 0 -> Teles S0-16.3
-
- Depends on isdn.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9. CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
-
- 9.1. Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes/TXC/CyDROM support (aztcd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe aztcd.o aztcd=[baseaddress]
-
- Read Documentation/cdrom/aztcd for full information.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.2. Goldstar R420 CDROM support (gscd.o).
-
- For all kind of other information about the GoldStar R420 CDROM and
- this Linux device driver there is a WWW-URL Page installed:
- http://linux.rz.fh-hannover.de/~raupach.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe gscd.o gscd=[address]
-
- The default base address is 0x340.
- This will work for most applications.
- Address selection is accomplished by jumpers PN801-1 to PN801-4
- on the GoldStar Interface Card.
- Appropriate settings are: 0x300, 0x310, 0x320, 0x330, 0x340, 0x350,
- 0x360, 0x370, 0x380, 0x390, 0x3A0, 0x3B0, 0x3C0, 0x3D0, 0x3E0, 0x3F0
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.3. Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC support
- (sbpcd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sbpcd.o sbpcd=[address], x
-
- address = ioaddress
- x = SBPRO setting, read Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.4. Mitsumi (standard) no XA/Multisession support (mcd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe mcd.o mcd=0x300,11,0x304,5
-
- Where parameters are io and irq in pairs.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.5. Mitsumi XA/MultiSession support (mcdx.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe mcdx.o mcdx=0x300,11,0x304,5
-
- Where parameters are io and irq in pairs.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.6. Optics Storage DOLPHIN 8000AT CDROM support (optcd.o).
-
- This is the driver for the so-called 'DOLPHIN' drive, with the 34-pin
- Sony-compatible interface. For the IDE-compatible Optics Storage 8001
- drive, you will want the ATAPI CDROM driver. The driver also seems to
- work with the Lasermate CR328A.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe optcd.o optcd=0x340
-
- Where parameter is the baseaddress of your card.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.7. Philips/LMS CM206 CDROM support (cm206.o).
-
- This is the driver for the Philips/LMS cdrom drive cm206 in
- combination with the cm260 host adapter card.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe cm206.o cm206=0x300,11
-
- Where parameters are the baseport and irq of your card.
- The order of baseport and irq line doesn't matter.
- You may specify only one,
- the other will have the value of the compiled-in default.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.8. Sanyo CDR-H94A CDROM support (sjcd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sjcd.o sjcd_base=0x340
-
- Where parameter is the baseaddress of your card.
- Default address = 0x340, no irq, no dma.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.9. ISP16/MAD16/Mozart soft configurable cdrom interface support
- (isp16.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe isp16.o [parameters]
-
- isp16_cdrom_base=<port>
- isp16_cdrom_irq=<irq>
- isp16_cdrom_dma=<dma>
- isp16_cdrom_type=<drive_type>
-
- Valid values are:
- port=0x340,0x320,0x330,0x360
- irq=0,3,5,7,9,10,11
- dma=0,3,5,6,7
- drive_type=noisp16,Sanyo,Panasonic,Sony,Mitsumi.
-
- Note that these options are case sensitive.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.10. Sony CDU31A/CDU33A CDROM support (cdu31a.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe cdu31a.o [parameters]
-
- cdu31a_port=<I/O address> - sets the base I/O.
- This must be specified.
-
- cdu31a_irq=<interrupt> - Sets the interrupt number.
- Leaving this off will turn interrupts off.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 9.11. Sony CDU535 CDROM support (sonycd535.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sonycd535.o sonycd535=[address]
-
- Where parameter is the baseaddress of your card.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10. Filesystems
-
- 10.1. Minix fs support(minix.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe minix.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.2. Extended fs support (ext.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ext.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.3. Second extended fs support (ext2.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ext2.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.4. xiafs filesystem support (xiafs.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe xiafs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.5. DOS FAT fs support (fat.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe fat.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.6. MSDOS fs support (msdos.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe msdos.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on fat.o.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.7. VFAT (Windows-95) fs support (vfat.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe vfat.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on fat.o.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.8. UMSDOS: Unix like fs on top of std MSDOS FAT fs (umsdos.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe vfat.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on fat.o and msdos.o.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.9. NFS filesystem support (nfs.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe nfs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.10. SMB filesystem support (to mount WfW shares etc..) (smbfs.o).
-
- smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB protocol. This is the
- protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or Lan Manager use to talk
- to each other. smbfs was inspired by samba, the program written by
- Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix host into a file server for DOS or
- Windows clients. See ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/ for
- this interesting program suite and lots of more information on SMB and
- NetBIOS over TCP/IP. There you also find explanation for concepts like
- netbios name or share.
-
- To use smbfs, you need a special mount program, which can be found in
- the ksmbfs package, found on
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/smbfs.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe smbfs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.11. NCP filesystem support (to mount NetWare volumes) (ncpfs.o).
-
- ncpfs is a filesystem which understands the NCP protocol, designed by
- the Novell Corporation for their NetWare(tm) product. NCP is
- functionally similar to the NFS used in the tcp/ip community. To
- mount a Netware-Filesystem, you need a special mount program, which
- can be found in ncpfs package. Homesite for ncpfs is
- ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs, but sunsite and its many mirrors
- will have it as well.
-
- Related products are linware and mars_nwe, which will give Linux
- partial NetWare Server functionality.
-
- Linware's home site is: klokan.sh.cvut.cz/pub/linux/linware,
-
- Mars_nwe can be found on ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ncpfs.o
-
- No module parameters.
-
- Depends on ipx.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.12. ISO9660 cdrom filesystem support (isofs.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe isofs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.13. OS/2 HPFS filesystem support (read only) (hpfs.o)
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe hpfs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.14. System V and Coherent filesystem support (sysv.o).
-
- This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for
- Linux.
-
- It implements all of
-
- ╖ Xenix FS,
-
- ╖ SystemV/386 FS,
-
- ╖ Coherent FS.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sysv.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.15. Amiga FFS filesystem support (affs.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe affs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 10.16. UFS filesystem support (read only) (ufs.o).
-
- Apparently for mounting disks with FreeBSD and/or Sun partitions. No
- documentation exists, apart from The Source.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ufs.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11. Character devices
-
- 11.1. Support for user misc device modules (misc.o).
-
- This module is used by atixlmouse, busmouse, msbusmouse, psaux, wdt
- and softdog modules and it is automatically generated if required.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe misc.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.2. Standard/generic serial support (serial.o).
-
- NOTE: serial.o is required by other modules, like ppp.o and slip.o.
- Also it is required by serial mouse and accordingly by gpm. However
- this dependency is not detected by present tools and module serial.o
- must be loaded manually.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe serial.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.3. Cyclades async mux support (cyclades.o)
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe cyclades.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.4. Stallion multiport serial support
-
- The intelligent boards also need to have their "firmware" code
- downloaded to them. This is done via a user level application supplied
- in the driver package called "stlload". Compile this program where
- ever you dropped the package files, by typing "make". In its simplest
- form you can then type
-
- in this directory and that will download board 0 (assuming board 0 is
- an EasyConnection 8/64 board). To download to an ONboard, Brumby or
- Stallion do:
-
- Read the information at /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/README.stallion.
-
- 11.4.1. Stallion EasyIO or EC8/32 support (stallion.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe stallion.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.4.2. Stallion EC8/64, ONboard, Brumby support (istallion.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe istallion.o
-
- No module parameters.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.5. SDL RISCom/8 card support (riscom8.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe riscom8.o [options]
-
- This driver can support up to 4 boards at time.
- Options : iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=...
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.6. Parallel printer support (lp.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe lp.o io=0x378 irq=0
-
- io = 0
- irq = 0 irq=0 will run in polled mode
-
- (Probes ports: 0x278, 0x378, 0x3bc)
- Note: loading lp.o without any parameters will
- grab all parallelports.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.7. Bus Mouse Support
-
- 11.7.1. ATIXL busmouse support (atixlmouse.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe atixlmouse.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.7.2. Logitech busmouse support (busmouse.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe busmouse.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.7.3. Microsoft busmouse support (msbusmouse.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe msbusmouse.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.7.4. PS/2 mouse (aka "auxiliary device") support (psaux.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe psaux.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.8. Tape support
-
- For support of SCSI tapedrives, see section SCSI Support. Support for
- QIC-02 tapes is not modularized.
-
- 11.8.1. Ftape (QIC-80/Travan) support (ftape.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe ftape.o tracing=3
-
- Option parameter 'tracing' can take following values
-
- set it to: to get:
- 0 bugs
- 1 + errors
- 2 + warnings
- 3 + information ** Default **
- 4 + more information
- 5 + program flow
- 6 + fdc/dma info
- 7 + data flow
- 8 + everything else
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.9. Watchdog Timer Support
-
- 11.9.1. WDT Watchdog timer (wdt.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe wdt.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Defaults to io=0x240 irq=14,
- make any required changes to wdt.c directly.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.9.2. Software Watchdog (softdog.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe softdog.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 11.9.3. Berkshire Products PC Watchdog (pcwd.o).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe pcwd.o
-
- No module parameters.
- Depends on misc.o
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 12. Sound support (sound.o).
-
- Configuring sound is a complex task, there is a number of Readme-files
- in directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound, read them.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Load command:
- /sbin/modprobe sound.o [option]
-
- Option: dma_buffsize=32768
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 13. Closing
-
- If you have found any glaring typos, or outdated info in this
- document, please let me know. It is easy to overlook stuff.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Lauri Tischler, ltischler@efore.fi
-
-