Prev Next Chapter 3. A very nice feature of the Linux kernel is the modules.
Modules are pieces of software that can be loaded and unloaded from the kernel at runtime.
Especially sound and network cards are really good to compile as modules, since sometimes they are a bit hard to configure, and when you have a module, you don't have to recompile and reboot your kernel to configure some irq or io setting. The tools used. They are insmod, modprobe, lsmod, depmod and rmmod. . As always I recommend reading the manual pages. A completely harmless command, even a normal user can run it.