insmod – Tarik Billa

How do I configure modprobe to find my module?

April 16, 2023 by Tarik

You can make a symbolic link of your module to the standard path, so depmod will see it and you’ll be able load it as any other module. sudo ln -s /path/to/module.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r` sudo depmod -a sudo modprobe module If you add the module name to /etc/modules it will be loaded any time you … Read more

How to determine if a specific module is loaded in linux kernel

April 11, 2023 by Tarik

The modinfo module method does not work well for me. I prefer this method that is similar to the alternative method proposed: #!/bin/sh MODULE=”$1″ if lsmod | grep -wq “$MODULE”; then echo “$MODULE is loaded!” exit 0 else echo “$MODULE is not loaded!” exit 1 fi