Kernel Modules

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 31 02:42:30 CDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:11:29AM +0200, Francis Viviers wrote:
> Im checking out a couple of things with ubuntu, when i cat /etc/modules there 
> are like 5 modules in there to load at boot. Well when i do a lsmod there are 
> tons of extra modules loaded and i was wondering what loads all of them. They 
> are not module dependencies because some of them have nothing to do with the 
> ones in the modules file.

In Ubuntu, the appropriate modules are loaded for all of your hardware by
default.  To see what each module is, you can use the 'modinfo' command.

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 - mdz



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