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I'm trying to get a kernel module to load at boot.
If I run insmod /path/to/module.ko, it works fine. But this has to be repeated every time I reboot.
If I run modprobe /path/to/module.ko, it can't find the module. I know modprobe uses a configuration file, but I can't get it to load the module even after adding /path/to/module.ko to /etc/modules.
What is the proper configuration?
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In order to insert a new module into the kernel, execute the modprobe command with the module name. Following example loads vmhgfs module to Linux kernel on Ubuntu. Once a module is loaded, verify it using lsmod command as shown below. The module files are with .
You need to use modinfo command to display or show information about a Linux Kernel loaded modules. Use the lsmod command to obtain list of loaded modules in the Linux kernel.
modprobe looks in the module directory /lib/modules/`uname -r` for all the modules and other files, except for the optional configuration files in the /etc/modprobe.
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 boot.
Anyway I think that the proper configuration is to copy the module to the standard paths.
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