insmod

kmod
Developer Jon Masters jcm@jonmasters.org
Developer Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
insmod 8
insmod Simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel
`insmod` filename module options

## DESCRIPTION

`insmod` is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe 8 instead, which is more clever and can handle module dependencies.

Only the most general of error messages are reported: as the work of trying to link the module is now done inside the kernel, the `dmesg` usually gives more information about errors.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.

## SEE ALSO

modprobe 8 , rmmod 8 , lsmod 8 modinfo 8