Comments on: Howto: Linux Add Remove a Linux Kernel Modules / Drivers

By: Bahador

Bahador — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:45 +0000

Hi
thanks for your comments, I am trying to write a printer driver for linux, what should I do?

Please help me on this task.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:56:53 +0000

One question remain: how do we check to know what modules are available to add on a existing system?

cd to /lib/modules/$(uname -r) directory and you can see the list of available modules (run as root):

cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
ls -l

The following will list all drives

find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -iname "*.ko"

To find out more info about a module called foo:

modinfo foo

Hope this helps!

By: Kingston

Kingston — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:22:06 +0000

Thanks for this very short but very clear information. That helps me to understand the concept (of add or remove module on Linux) very much.

One question remain: how do we check to know what modules are available to add on a existing system?

Thank you in advance!

By: peter

peter — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:08:56 +0000

Hi there…
I am trying to remove TCP IP from a linux kernel, and want to recompile the LINUX kernel. But being a novice with the administrations of the linux (UBUNTU 10.4), I know a little about it. Agter recompilation can I again design mu own TCPIP using the C language code?
Guys please help me out…waiting for the reply .
Regards…

By: prakash

prakash — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:29:54 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info…:) :)

By: santhosh kumar k

santhosh kumar k — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:21:42 +0000

how to build linux kernel module with new device driver module during build

By: ss

ss — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:50:50 +0000

thanks

By: vikas

vikas — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:09:32 +0000

thank tou

By: hamza

hamza — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:30:43 +0000

Thank’s first for the helpfull command , where can i get the new modules other then my OS,

By: Teryaki

Teryaki — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:23:18 +0000

Thanks alot for this, very helpful for teh newbz.

By: Todd Weaver

Todd Weaver — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:18:11 +0000

In Debian…
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting

By: Lakshman

Lakshman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:33:58 +0000

when the system is rebooted the module inside the kernel will not be present.But i want the modules to be seen permenently.what should i do.