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[7f2a588]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
[e5ca6b9d]8<sect1 id="ch-system-kmod" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="kmod.html"?>
[3f8be484]10
[e5ca6b9d]11 <title>Kmod-&kmod-version;</title>
[3f8be484]12
[e5ca6b9d]13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod">
14 <primary sortas="a-Kmod">Kmod</primary>
[3f8be484]15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
[e5ca6b9d]20 <para>The Kmod package contains programs for loading, inserting
21 and removing kernel modules for Linux. Kmod replaces the
22 Module-Init-tools package.</para>
[3f8be484]23
24 </sect2>
25
26 <sect2 role="installation">
[e5ca6b9d]27 <title>Installation of Kmod</title>
[3f8be484]28
[e5ca6b9d]29 <para os="a">Prepare Kmod for compilation:</para>
[8ac1263]30
[e5ca6b9d]31<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
32 --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc \
33 --with-rootlibdir=/lib \
34 --with-zlib --with-xz</userinput></screen>
[8ac1263]35
[e5ca6b9d]36 <variablelist os="c">
[da0b4a3]37 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
[3f8be484]38
39 <varlistentry>
[e5ca6b9d]40 <term><parameter>--with-rootlibdir=/lib</parameter></term>
41 <listitem>
42 <para>Install location for shared libraries.</para>
43 </listitem>
44 </varlistentry>
45
46 <varlistentry>
47 <term><parameter>--with-zlib --with-xz</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]48 <listitem>
[e5ca6b9d]49 <para>This allows the Kmod package to handle zlib and XZ
50 compressed kernel modules.</para>
[3f8be484]51 </listitem>
52 </varlistentry>
53
54 </variablelist>
55
[e5ca6b9d]56 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
57
58<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]59
[e5ca6b9d]60 <para os="f">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput></para>
[c6c6c35]61
[e5ca6b9d]62 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]63
[e5ca6b9d]64<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[e69b20a]65
[e5ca6b9d]66 <para os="i">Create symbolic links for programs that expect Module-Init-Tools.</para>
67
68<screen os="j"><userinput>ln -sv kmod /bin/lsmod
69ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/depmod
70ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/insmod
71ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/modprobe
72ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/modinfo
73ln -sv ../bin/kmod /sbin/rmmod</userinput></screen>
74
[3f8be484]75 </sect2>
76
[e5ca6b9d]77 <sect2 id="contents-kmod" role="content">
78 <title>Contents of Kmod</title>
[3f8be484]79
80 <segmentedlist>
81 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
82
83 <seglistitem>
[2b220db9]84 <seg>depmod, insmod, kmod, lsmod, modinfo, modprobe, and
[188b6b2]85 rmmod</seg>
[3f8be484]86 </seglistitem>
87 </segmentedlist>
88
89 <variablelist>
90 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
91 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
92 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
93
94 <varlistentry id="depmod">
95 <term><command>depmod</command></term>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>Creates a dependency file based on the symbols it finds in
98 the existing set of modules; this dependency file is used by
99 <command>modprobe</command> to automatically load the required
100 modules</para>
[e5ca6b9d]101 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod depmod">
[3f8be484]102 <primary sortas="b-depmod">depmod</primary>
103 </indexterm>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 <varlistentry id="insmod">
108 <term><command>insmod</command></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>Installs a loadable module in the running kernel</para>
[e5ca6b9d]111 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod insmod">
[3f8be484]112 <primary sortas="b-insmod">insmod</primary>
113 </indexterm>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116
[2b220db9]117 <varlistentry id="kmod">
118 <term><command>kmod</command></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>Loads and unloads kernel modules</para>
121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod kmod">
122 <primary sortas="b-kmod">kmod</primary>
123 </indexterm>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
[3f8be484]127 <varlistentry id="lsmod">
128 <term><command>lsmod</command></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>Lists currently loaded modules</para>
[e5ca6b9d]131 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod lsmod">
[3f8be484]132 <primary sortas="b-lsmod">lsmod</primary>
133 </indexterm>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
136
137 <varlistentry id="modinfo">
138 <term><command>modinfo</command></term>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>Examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
141 displays any information that it can glean</para>
[e5ca6b9d]142 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modinfo">
[3f8be484]143 <primary sortas="b-modinfo">modinfo</primary>
144 </indexterm>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry id="modprobe">
149 <term><command>modprobe</command></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Uses a dependency file, created by <command>depmod</command>,
152 to automatically load relevant modules</para>
[e5ca6b9d]153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modprobe">
[3f8be484]154 <primary sortas="b-modprobe">modprobe</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="rmmod">
160 <term><command>rmmod</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Unloads modules from the running kernel</para>
[e5ca6b9d]163 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod rmmod">
[3f8be484]164 <primary sortas="b-rmmod">rmmod</primary>
165 </indexterm>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>
168
169 </variablelist>
170
171 </sect2>
172
173</sect1>
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