<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux Kernel Modules Installation HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Purpose of this Document" HREF="purpose.html"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="Linux"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="kernel"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="module"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >Linux Kernel Modules Installation HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" ></A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > rhw@bigfoot.com<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Unknown date</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: rhw</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial Release</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN8" ></A ><P ></P ><P > Describes the installation of Linux kernel modules. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="purpose.html" >Purpose of this Document</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="require.html" >Pre-requisites</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="speedup.html" >Compiler Speed-up</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="kernel.html" >Recompiling the Kernel for Modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="kernel.html#REDHAT" >Configuring Debian or RedHat for Modules</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="kernel.html#SLACKWARE" >Configuring Slackware for Modules</A ></DT ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="kernel.html#OTHERDIST" >Configuring Other Distributions for Modules</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="purpose.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Purpose of this Document</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >