Module tricks

[Karl Larsen]

    It has been awhile since I cared what the kernel has in it. But as I 
thought "lsmod" will list everything in the kernel and it still does. I 
did a lsmod and found the modules for WiFi were not in the kernel. The 
kernel I am using on the laptop is supposed to have all the WiFi modules.

    So I did a modprobe ipw2100 and it seemed to work. I looked with 
lsmod and sure enough the it and ieee81102 was also in the kernel. It 
didn't start WiFi working yet. I looked at /var/log/messages and it 
showed both modules loading properly but for some reason NetworkManager 
was not interested in finding WiFi. I need to do something else.

    Be aware that if you modprobe a module into the kernel it goes away 
with a reboot.

Karl