insmod - Man Page

• Insert a kernel module into the Linux kernel: insmod path/to/module.ko

tldr.sh

insmod [filename] [module options...]

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.

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

modprobe(8), rmmod(8), lsmod(8), modinfo(8) depmod(8)

Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. If you have a clone of kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1) can show you the authors for specific parts of the project.

Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of the project.

ipvsadm(8), kmod(8), lsmod(8), modprobe(8), rmmod(8), sk98lin(4), wavelan(4).