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>Revision v2.0</TD
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>22 May 2000</TD
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>About the kerneld mini-HOWTO</A
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>What is kerneld?</A
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>Why do I want to use it ?</A
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>Where can I pick up the necessary pieces
?</A
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>How do I set it up?</A
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>Trying out kerneld</A
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>How does kerneld know what module
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>Line disciplines (slip, cslip and ppp)</A
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>Network protocol families (IPX,
AppleTalk, AX.25)</A
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>char-major-10 : Mice, watchdogs and randomness</A
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>Loading SCSI drivers: The
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>When loading a module isn't enough: The
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>Special kerneld uses</A
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>This document explains how to install and use the automatic
kernel module loader <SPAN
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>"kerneld"</SPAN
>. The latest released
version of this document can be found at <A
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Project</A
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>This document is based on an original HTML version 1.7
dated July 19, 1997 by Henrik Storner
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> May 20, 2000.</P
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>The following people have contributed to this
mini-HOWTO at some point:</P
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>Bjorn Ekwall bj0rn@blox.se</P
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>Ben Galliart bgallia@luc.edu</P
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>Cedric Tefft cedric@earthling.net</P
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>Brian Miller bmiller@netspace.net.au</P
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>James C. Tsiao
jtsiao@madoka.jpl.nasa.gov</P
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>If you find errors in this document, please send email to
<TT
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>&#60;<A
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>kerneld-howto@linuxdoc.org</A
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>. Your comments,
encouragement and suggestions are welcome and appreciated, and
help ensure this guide remains current and accurate.</P
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