On Lu, 28 iun 10, 12:42:28, post id wrote: > > > > Did you try rebooting? ;) > > Explanation: modules loaded only "by hand" with modprobe > > will not > > persist after a reboot. > > That's a relief. It reminds me once again that Linux is safe enough > for idiots like me.
Actually, with root access you can do a LOT of damage and the system will not prevent you. Experimenting is a good way to learn, but be sure to have good backups of all data you care about and mind that it is possible to permanently damage your hardware (as you already found out), so you might want to do it on a spare machine. > So to permanently insert a module, I'd use insmod, right? No. You should to read 'man modprobe' and 'man insmod'. To have a module loaded automatically on every boot you can list it in /etc/modules. > Is there any way of telling when a module was permanently loaded using insmod? There is no such thing as "permanently loading a module". Even if for some reason (bug) the module can't be removed from the running kernel you can still reboot the machine (and blacklist the module from being loaded automatically if necessary). If you want to have a driver permanently loaded you have to recompile the kernel and configure the relevant driver to be compiled in instead of an external module. There is a lot of documentation about this on the big web. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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