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> My experience with Linux and modules has been that the existing
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documents fail to provide a satisfactory explanation as to how to
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successfully set up Linux with modules configured and working. The
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procedure explained in this document has been successfully used several
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times, both on my own system and over the Internet to give directions
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to somebody trying to get some feature to work which requires a driver
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supplied only in module form.
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> My own system runs from a RedHat 4.1 distribution of Linux, and it was
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on this setup that I developed the procedure. I have since successfully
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installed it on systems running from various Slackware distributions, and
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on one system running from a Debian distribution, and the necessary
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procedure to correctly configure modules under Linux in all three is
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documented herein.
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> I have recently used the same procedure with RedHat 4.2, but with
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inconsistent results on apparently identical systems. I have not yet
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determined what the problem is, so can make no guarantees at this stage
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as to whether or not it will work on your system.
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