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Omar Hossam Ahmed
Asked: 2017-11-21 01:14:17 +0800 CST

What is the difference between modprobe and dkms?

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Noob question here.... I read about modprobe and dkms and it seems to me they do the same thing, so what is the difference?

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    Modprobe

    Loads and runs a kernel module

    dkms

    Compiles and installs a kernel module from source for the specified kernel (current running kernel if none are specified.

    To autoload modules at boot

    Edit the file /etc/modules. add each module you want to load one per line.

    Example file contents:

    # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

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