From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 21:30:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.lordlegacy.org (lordlegacy.org [209.61.182.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2D937B401 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharon ([216.13.207.127]) by server1.lordlegacy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00769; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:40:32 -0500 From: "Stephen Hurd" To: "Koji" , Subject: RE: information of every kld module Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:34:55 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <006501c1341b$b000fa60$0164a8c0@daemon> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, i have a lot of modules on /modules directory but where I can find > information about each module? > The module's names are not very intuitive Reading LINT will help you out... generally, they have the same name as an optional line in the kernel config. Also, some of them have a prefix: if_ Interface (NICs etc.) ng_ NetGraph (Not sure where NetGraph came from but it's networking stuff like ppp, the packet filter, etc...) snd_ Sound card drivers And others have a suffix: _saver - console screen saver If you can't figure it out from that, check for a man page... and you should be able to figure out what every module there is for. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message