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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.
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.
Also see the documentation in /usr/doc/modules, and the Documentation directory
in newer Linux kernel source. (/usr/src/linux-1.3.xx/Documentation)
As a simple example, these lines were added to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 to load
drivers for a WD ethernet card:
/sbin/insmod 8390
/sbin/insmod wd io=0x240 irq=10
Note that this must happen *before* using ifconfig on eth0 or setting up
eth0 related routes!
Here's how this will look when you boot your machine:
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Going multiuser...
loading device 'eth0'...
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: WD80x3 at 0x240, 00 00 C0 AD 58 55 WD8013, IRQ 10, shared memory at 0xcc000-0xcffff.
Mounting remote file systems...
Starting daemons: syslogd klogd portmap inetd lpd mountd nfsd