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[ 30 July 1997
  The Linux Module HOWTO is not being maintained by the author any
  more.  If you are interested in maintaining the Module HOWTO, please
  get in touch with me at <gregh@sunsite.unc.edu>. ]

  Linux Module-HOWTO
  Lauri Tischler, Editor.
  v1.1, 20 October 1996

  This is the Module-HOWTO, which is a compilation of all the possible
  module parameters that can be passed to the Linux modules at load
  time. Information within is based on Linux Kernel version 2.0.23.

  1.  Introduction

  Inspiration for this paper came from Paul Gortmaker's excellent
  BootPrompt-HOWTO.  With Paul's permission I have used his paper as a
  framework, upon which I have grafted my ramblings.  Different parts of
  this paper have been shamelessly, without any permissions what so
  ever, ripped off from various README and *.txt files within The Source
  Tree. My sincere thanks for all the authors of those texts which have
  made this document possible.

  This paper generally follows the same structure/module order as the
  kernel configuration utility menuconfig when run in
  single_menu_mode=TRUE mode.

  All sections which are marked Modular in the configuration utility are
  included here, regardless whether they have option parameters or not.

  Each section follows the example outline below:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ne.o io=0x300 irq=5

          io = 0          (Explicitly *requires* an "io=0xNNN" value)
          irq = 0         (Tries to determine configured IRQ via autoIRQ)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  The Module-HOWTO is edited and maintained by:

       Lauri Tischler, ltischler@efore.fi

  1.1.  Disclaimer and Copyright

  This document is not gospel. However, it is probably the most up to
  date info that you will be able to find. Nobody is responsible for
  what happens to your hardware but yourself. If your hardware goes up
  in smoke (...nearly impossible!)  I take no responsibility. ie. THE
  AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED DUE TO ACTIONS
  TAKEN BASED ON THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT.

  This document is Copyright (c) 1996 by Lauri Tischler.  Permisson is
  granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided
  the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all
  copies.

  Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
  document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that this
  copyright notice is included exactly as in the original, and that the
  entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
  permission notice identical to this one.

  Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
  document into another language, under the above conditions for
  modified versions.

  If you are intending to incorporate this document into a published
  work, please contact me, and I will make an effort to ensure that you
  have the most up to date information available. In the past, out of
  date versions of the Linux howto documents have been published, which
  caused the developers undue grief from being plagued with questions
  that were already answered in the up to date versions.

  1.2.  Related Documentation

  Following HOWTO's are highly recommended :

    BootPrompt-HOWTO by Paul Gortmaker (Paul.Gortmaker@anu.edu.au).
     New versions of this document can be retrieved via anonymous FTP
     from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/* and various Linux
     ftp mirror sites.

    kerneld mini-HOWTO by Henrik Storner (storner@osiris.ping.dk).  The
     latest released version of this document can be found at
     http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/kerneld-mini-HOWTO.html.  Between
     releases of the mini-HOWTO you can find updates on Henrik's
     unstructured list of changes at
     http://eolicom.olicom.dk/~storner/kern.html.

  The file Documentation/Configure.help gives good general information
  about what parts of the kernel to modularize or not.

  Also plethora of various README files, sprinkled (unfortunately) all
  over The Source Tree are good and informative reading.

  The most up-to-date documentation will always be The Kernel Source
  itself. For example, if you were looking for what parameters could be
  passed to the smc-ultra ethernetcard, then you would go to the
  linux/drivers/net directory, and look at the file smc-ultra.c --
  usually somewhere in the end of the file you would find a procedure
  called init_module.  Within this procedure or around it you will
  parameter and structure definitions related to module parameters.

  1.3.  The Linux Newsgroups

  If you have questions about passing parameters to modules at load
  time, please READ this document first. If this and the related
  documentation mentioned above does not answer your question(s) then
  you can try the Linux newsgroups.

  General questions on how to configure your system should be directed
  to comp.os.linux.setup.  We ask that you please respect this general
  guideline for content, and don't cross-post your request to other
  groups.

  1.4.  New Versions of Document

  New versions of this document can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from
  sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/* and various Linux ftp
  mirror sites. Updates will be made  as new information or drivers
  becomes available. If this copy that you are reading is more than 3
  months old, it is either out of date, or it means that I have been
  lazy and haven't updated it.
  This document was produced by using the SGML system that was
  specifically set up for the Linux Howto project, and there are various
  output formats available, including, postscript, dvi, ascii, html, and
  soon TeXinfo.

  I would recommend viewing it in the html (via a WWW browser) or the
  Postscript/dvi format. Both of these contain cross-references that are
  lost in the ascii translation.

  If you want to get the official copy off sunsite, here is URL.

  Module-HOWTO <http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO.html>

  1.5.  Experimental (alpha-code) modules or incomplete information.

  Here is a list of modules which are declared experimental in
  configuration scripts or otherwise have incomplete info or I'm just
  too dumb to understand The Source. Pick your choice.

    Support for JAVA binaries.

    Frame Relay DLCI driver.

    Sangoma S502A FRAD driver.

    BAYCOM driver for AX.25.

    WIC Radio IP Bridge.

    3Com 3c505 Ethernet driver.

    3Com 3c507 Ethernet driver.

    Allied Telesis AT1700 Ethernet driver.

    Intel Ether Express Pro driver.

    Fujitsu FMV-18x Ethernet driver.

    ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 Ethernet driver.

    NI 5210 Ethernet driver.

    Ansel Communications EISA 3200 Ethernet driver.

    Amiga FSS Filesystem.

  1.6.  History.

    Initial release 1.0, 20th June 1996.

    Release 1.1, 20th October 1996.

  2.  Module utilities

  Module utilities are a set of programs necessary for handling the
  modules. At the time of this writing, version of latest module
  utilities was modules-2.0.0.tar.gz.  Info about latest current version
  can be found at http://www.pi.se/blox

  This information was originally provided by following gentlemen,
  Jacques Gelinas jacques@solucorp.qc.ca and Bjrn Ekwall bj0rn@blox.se
  in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt.

  2.1.  Making the modules

  Your first step is to compile the kernel, as explained in the file
  linux/README.  It generally goes like:

    make config

    make dep

    make clean

    make zImage or make zlilo

  In make config, you select what you want to include in the resident
  kernel and what features you want to have available as loadable
  modules.  You will generally select the minimal resident set that is
  needed to boot:

    The filesystem of your root partition

    A scsi driver

    Normal hard drive support

    Net support (CONFIG_NET)

    TCP/IP support (CONFIG_INET), but no drivers!

    plus those things that you just can't live without...

  The set of modules is constantly increasing, and you will be able to
  select the option m in make config for those features that the current
  kernel can offer as loadable modules.

  You also have a possibility to create modules that are less dependent
  on the kernel version.  This option can be selected during make
  config, by enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, and is most useful on stable
  kernel versions, such as the kernels from the 1.2 and 2.0 series.  If
  you have modules that are based on sources that are not included in
  the official kernel sources, you will certainly like this option...

  When you have made the kernel, you create the modules by doing:

       make modules

  This will compile all modules and update the linux/modules directory.
  In this directory you will then find a bunch of symbolic links,
  pointing to the various object files in the kernel tree.

  Now, after you have created all your modules, you should also do:

       make modules_install

  This will copy all newly made modules into subdirectories under
  /lib/modules/kernel_release/, where kernel_release is something like
  2.0.1, or whatever the current kernel version is...

  As soon as you have rebooted the newly made kernel, you can install
  and remove modules at will with the utilities: insmod and rmmod.
  After reading the man-page for insmod, you will also know how easy it
  is to configure a module when you do insmod (hint: symbol=value).

  2.2.  Extended utilities, modprobe and depmod.

  You also have access to two utilities: modprobe and depmod, where
  modprobe is a wrapper for (or extension to) insmod.  These utilities
  use (and maintain) a set of files that describe all the modules that
  are available for the current kernel in the /lib/modules hierarchy as
  well as their interdependencies.

  Using the modprobe utility, you can load any module like this:

       /sbin/modprobe module

  without paying much attention to which kernel you are running, or what
  other modules this module depends on.

  With the help of the modprobe configuration file: /etc/conf.modules
  you can tune the behaviour of modprobe in many ways, including an
  automatic setting of insmod options for each module. And, yes, there
  are man-pages for all this...

  To use modprobe successfully, you generally place the following
  command in your /etc/rc.d/rc.S script.  (Read more about this in the
  rc.hints file in the module utilities package, modules-x.y.z.tar.gz.)

       /sbin/depmod -a

  This computes the dependencies between the different modules.  Then if
  you do, for example

       /sbin/modprobe umsdos

  you will automatically load both the msdos and umsdos modules, since
  umsdos runs piggyback on msdos.

  2.3.  The ultimate utility, kerneld.

  OK, you have read all of the above, and feel amply impressed...  Now,
  we tell you to forget all about how to install and remove loadable
  modules...

  With the kerneld daemon, all of these chores will be taken care of
  automatically.  Just answer "Y" to CONFIG_KERNELD in make config, and
  make sure that /sbin/kerneld is started as soon as possible after boot
  and that /sbin/depmod -a has been executed for the current kernel.
  (Read more about this in the module utilities package.)

  Whenever a program wants the kernel to use a feature that is only
  available as a loadable module, and if the kernel hasn't got the
  module installed yet, the kernel will ask the kerneld deamon to take
  care of the situation and make the best of it.

  This is what happens:

    The kernel notices that a feature is requested that is not resident
     in the kernel.

    The kernel sends a message to kerneld, with a symbolic description
     of the requested feature.

    The kerneld daemon asks e.g. modprobe to load a module that fits
     this symbolic description.

    Modprobe looks into its internal alias translation table to see if
     there is a match.  This table can be reconfigured and expanded by
     having alias lines in /etc/conf.modules.

    Insmod is then asked to insert the module(s) that modprobe has
     decided that the kernel needs.  Every module will be configured
     according to the options lines in /etc/conf.modules.

    Modprobe exits and kerneld tells the kernel that the request
     succeded (or failed...)

    The kernel uses the freshly installed feature just as if it had
     been configured into the kernel as a resident part.

  The icing of the cake is that when an automatically installed module
  has been unused for a period of time (usually 1 minute), the module
  will be automatically removed from the kernel as well.

  This makes the kernel use the minimal amount of memory at any given
  time, making it available for more productive use than as just a
  placeholder for unused code.

  Actually, this is only a side-effect from the real benefit of kerneld:
  You only have to create a minimal kernel, that is more or less
  independent of the actual hardware setup.  The setup of the virtual
  kernel is instead controlled by a configuration file as well as the
  actual usage pattern of the current machine and its kernel.

  This should be good news for maintainers of multiple machines as well
  as for maintainers of distributions.

  To use kerneld with the least amount of hassle, you need modprobe from
  a release that can be considered recent w.r.t. your kernel, and also a
  configuration file for modprobe (/etc/conf.modules).

  Since modprobe already knows about most modules, the minimal
  configuration file could look something like this:

          alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542  # or whatever SCSI adapter you have
          alias eth0 3c509                # or whatever net adapter you have

          # you might need an "options" line for some net adapters:
          options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10

          # you might also need an "options" line for some other module:
          options cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x1f88 sony_pas_init=1

  You could add these lines as well, but they are only cosmetic:

               alias net-pf-3 off      # no ax25 module available (yet)
               alias net-pf-4 off      # if you don't use the ipx module
               alias net-pf-5 off      # if you don't use the appletalk module

  Finally, for the purists: You can name the modprobe configuration
  either /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf, since modprobe knows
  what to do in each case...

  3.  General Kernel setup

  Note: you can't have both a.out and ELF support compiled as modules.
  Otherwise, you get a nice Catch-22 when you try to run insmod to
  install a.out/ELF support so you can run insmod ;-).  If you have an
  all-ELF system, but need a.out for the occasional Netscape session,
  then you can do a.out support as a module.  Otherwise, you should
  probably leave it in the kernel, and if you haven't gone ELF yet, you
  can probably leave out ELF compleately.

  3.1.  Kernel support for a.out binaries (binfmt_aout.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe binfmt_aout.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  3.2.  Kernel support for ELF binaries (binfmt_elf.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe binfmt_elf.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  3.3.  Kernel support for JAVA binaries (binfmt_java.o).

  JAVA is an object oriented programming language developed by SUN; JAVA
  programs are compiled into "JAVA bytecode" which can then be
  interpreted by run time systems on many different operating systems.
  These JAVA binaries are becoming a universal executable format. This
  option allows you to run a Java binary just like any other Linux
  program: by typing in its name.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe binfmt_java.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  4.  Floppy and other block devices.

  4.1.  The Floppy Disk Driver (floppy.o).

  There are many floppy driver options, and they are all listed in
  README.fd in linux/drivers/block. For detailed, up to date,
  information refer directly to this file.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe floppy.o 'floppy="<options>"'

          There are quite a number of available floppy parameters:
	  mask, allowed_drive_mask, all_drives, asus_pci, daring,
          two_fdc, thinkpad, omnibook, nodma, dma, nofifo, fifo, 
          fifo_depth, unexpected_interrupts, no_unexpected_interrupts,
          broken_dcl, debug, messages, slow...

	  Read Documentation/floppy.txt in the Linux source tree for full information.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  mask,allowed_drive_mask -         Sets the bitmask of allowed drives
  to mask. By default, only units 0 and 1 of each floppy controller are
  allowed. This is done because certain non-standard hardware (ASUS PCI
  motherboards) mess up the keyboard when accessing units 2 or 3. This
  option is somewhat obsoleted by the cmos option.

  all_drives - Sets the bitmask of allowed drives to all drives.  Use
  this if you have more than two drives connected to a floppy
  controller.

  asus_pci - Sets the bitmask to allow only units 0 and 1.  (The
  default)

  daring - Tells the floppy driver that you have a well behaved floppy
  controller.  This allows more efficient and smoother operation, but
  may fail on certain controllers.  This may speed up certain
  operations.

  0,daring - Tells the floppy driver that your floppy controller should
  be used with caution.
  one_fdc - Tells the floppy driver that you have only floppy controller
  (default)

  two_fdc or address,two_fdc - Tells the floppy driver that you have two
  floppy controllers. The second floppy controller is assumed to be at
  address. This option is not needed if the second controller is at
  address 0x370, and if you use the 'cmos' option

  thinkpad - Tells the floppy driver that you have a Thinkpad. Thinkpads
  use an inverted convention for the disk change line.

  0,thinkpad - Tells the floppy driver that you don't have a Thinkpad.

  omnibook or nodma - Tells the floppy driver not to use Dma for data
  transfers.  This is needed on HP Omnibooks, which don't have a
  workable DMA channel for the floppy driver. This option is also useful
  if you frequently get "Unable to allocate DMA memory" messages.
  Indeed, dma memory needs to be continuous in physical, and is thus
  harder to find, whereas non-dma buffers may be allocated in virtual
  memory. However, I advise against this if you have an FDC without a
  FIFO (8272A or 82072). 82072A and later are OK. You also need at least
  a 486 to use nodma.  If you use nodma mode, I suggest you also set the
  FIFO threshold to 10 or lower, in order to limit the number of data
  transfer interrupts.

  dma - Tells the floppy driver that a workable DMA channel is available
  (the default).

  nofifo - Disables the FIFO entirely. This is needed if you get "Bus
  master arbitration error" messages from your ethernet card (or from
  other devices) while accessing the floppy.

  fifo - Enables the FIFO (default)

  [threshold],fifo_depth - Sets the FIFO threshold. This is mostly
  relevant in DMA mode. If this is higher, the floppy driver tolerates
  more interrupt latency, but it triggers more interrupts (i.e. it
  imposes more load on the rest of the system). If this is lower, the
  interrupt latency should be lower too (faster processor). The benefit
  of a lower threshold is less interrupts.

  To tune the fifo threshold, switch on over/underrun messages using
  'floppycontrol --messages'. Then access a floppy disk. If you get a
  huge amount of "Over/Underrun - retrying" messages, then the fifo
  threshold is too low. Try with a higher value, until you only get an
  occasional Over/Underrun.  It is a good idea to compile the floppy
  driver as a module when doing this tuning. Indeed, it allows to try
  different fifo values without rebooting the machine for each test.
  Note that you need to do 'floppycontrol --messages' every time you re-
  insert the module.  Usually, tuning the fifo threshold should not be
  needed, as the default (0xa) is reasonable.

  [drive],[type],cmos - Sets the CMOS type of drive to type. This is
  mandatory if you have more than two floppy drives (only two can be
  described in the physical CMOS), or if your BIOS uses non-standard
  CMOS types. The CMOS types are:

  ______________________________________________________________________
            0 - Use the value of the physical CMOS
                  1 - 5 1/4 DD
                  2 - 5 1/4 HD
                  3 - 3 1/2 DD
                  4 - 3 1/2 HD
                  5 - 3 1/2 ED
                  6 - 3 1/2 ED
                 16 - unknown or not installed
  ______________________________________________________________________

  (Note: there are two valid types for ED drives. This is because 5 was
  initially chosen to represent floppy *tapes*, and 6 for ED drives.
  AMI ignored this, and used 5 for ED drives. That's why the floppy
  driver handles both)

  unexpected_interrupts - Print a warning message when an unexpected
  interrupt is received (default behavior)

  no_unexpected_interrupts or L40SX - Don't print a message when an
  unexpected interrupt is received. This is needed on IBM L40SX laptops
  in certain video modes. (There seems to be an interaction between
  video and floppy. The unexpected interrupt only affect performance,
  and can safely be ignored.)

  4.2.  Loopback block device support (loop.o).

  Enabling this option will allow you to mount a file as a file system.
  This is useful if you want to check an ISO9660 file system before
  burning the CD, or want to use floppy images without first writing
  them to floppy.

  This option also allows one to mount a filesystem with encryption.  To
  use these features, you need a recent version of mount and other
  patches for DES and IDEA. They can be found at
  http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/linuxkernel/patches.  Note that this
  loop device has nothing to do with the loopback device used for
  network connections from the machine to itself.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe loop.o

          max_loop   maximum number of loop devices (default is 8, maximum is 255)

          Contrary to what its name suggests, the number you specify
          is the number of loop devices that always exist. An existing
          device is not necessarily configured (bound to a backing
          file), though, so this number can be thought of as the maximum
          number of loop devices that you can configure.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  4.3.  Multiple devices driver support (RAID).

  This driver lets you combine several harddisk partitions into one
  logical block device.

  Tools that can be used to manage md devices can be found at sweet-
  smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/md035.tar.gz.  Same location
  contains also a document md-FAQ.

  There are various levels of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or
  Independent) Disks defined.

    RAID-0, Data striped across all disks. No error checking.

     Pros.
        Best RAID data transfer rate. Transparent to system software.

     Cons.
        No error checking or redundancy. The failure of one drive in the
        array results in the loss of all data stored in the array.  Any
        MTBF calculation must really be recalculated.

    RAID-1, Disk Mirroring.

     Pros.
        No write penalty. 100% data redundancy.  No performace penalty
        after failure.

     Cons.
        100% cost overhead. Requires 2x disk space and power compared to
        non-arrayed system.

    RAID-5, Sector-oriented striping of data and parity.

     Pros.
        Good performance for transaction processing systems.  No write
        overhead as in RAID-4.  Storage overhead is maximum of one disk.
        Can read in parallel across the array.

     Cons.
        Performance degradation during data reconstruction.

    RAID-6, Mirrored RAID-0 array.

     Pros.
        RAID data transfer rate comparable to RAID-0.  100% data
        redundancy.  No performace penalty after failure.

     Cons.
        100% cost overhead. Requires 2x disk space and power compared to
        non-arrayed system.

  Only RAID-0 is available for Linux at the moment. Linear mode is not
  considered as part of RAID definition. The Raid Advisory Board does
  not consider RAID-0 to be part of RAID definition either, due to
  missing data redundancy.

  Usefull modes for implementation are RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5 and
  RAID-6.

  4.3.1.  Multiple device in Linear (append) mode (linear.o).

  If you use this, then your multiple devices driver will be able to use
  the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the harddisk
  partitions by simply appending one to the other.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe linear.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  4.3.2.  Multiple device in RAID-0 (striped) mode (raid0.o).

  If you use this, then your multiple devices driver will be able to use
  the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the harddisk partitions
  into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them up evenly,
  one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase the throughput
  rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe raid0.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  4.4.  RAM disk support (rd.o).

  Enabling this option will allow you to use a portion of your RAM
  memory as a block device, so that you can make filesystems on it, read
  and write to it and do all the other things that normal block devices
  (such as harddrives) can do.  It is usually used to load and store a
  copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM during the
  initial install of Linux.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe rd.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  4.5.  XT harddisk support (xd.o).

  Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer.  No,
  the existence of XT disk support does NOT mean that you can run Linux
  on an IBM XT :).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe xd.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  5.  General TCP/IP and Networking options.

  5.1.  IP Tunneling (ipip.o and new_tunnel.o).

  Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within another
  protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
  encapsulating protocol. Two modules are necessary ipip.o, IP/IP
  protocol decoder, and new_tunnel.o driver, (this was previously called
  tunnel.o and the documentation still refers to this name).
  Documentation is found at /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.tunnel.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load commands:
          /sbin/modprobe ipip.o
          /sbin/modprobe new_tunnel.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  5.2.  IP Aliasing support (ip_alias.o).

  Sometimes it is useful to give several addresses to a single network
  interface (= serial port or ethernet card). The most common case is
  that you want to serve different WWW documents to the outside
  according to which of your host names they used to connect to you.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ip_alias.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  5.3.  IP Reverse ARP (rarp.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe rarp.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  5.4.  IPX Protocol (ipx.o).

  This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly used
  for local networks of DOS and Windows machines.

  IPX protocol is required if :

    You wish to connect to Netware servers using Linux DOS emulator
     DOSEMU.

    You wish to mount Netware volumes as Linux filesystems using Linux
     Novell client ncpfs.

    You wish to connect to Linux server from Netware client, or mount
     Linux directories as Netware volumes.  There are two daemons for
     this purpose, linwared and nwserv.

  Homesite for ncpfs is ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs, but sunsite
  and its many mirrors will have it as well.

  Linware's home site is klokan.sh.cvut.cz/pub/linux/linware,

  nwserv package Mars_nwe is also on ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ipx.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  5.5.  Appletalk DDP (appletalk.o).

  Appletalk is the way Apple computers speak to each other on a network.
  EtherTalk is the name used for appletalk over ethernet and Localtalk
  is appletalk over the apple serial links.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe appletalk.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.  SCSI Support.

  The scsi support in the linux kernel can be modularized in a number of
  different ways depending upon the needs of the end user.  To
  understand  your options, we should first define a few terms.

  The scsi-core contains the core of scsi support.  Without it you can
  do nothing with any of the other scsi drivers.  The scsi core support
  can be a module (scsi_mod.o), or it can be build into the kernel.  If
  the core is a module, it must be the first scsi module loaded, and if
  you unload the modules, it will have to be the last one unloaded.

  The individual upper and lower level drivers can be loaded in any
  order once the scsi core is present in the kernel (either compiled in
  or loaded as a module).  The disk driver (sd_mod.o), cdrom driver
  (sr_mod.o), tape driver (st.o) and scsi generics driver (sg.o)
  represent the upper level drivers to support the various assorted
  devices which can be controlled.  You can for example load the tape
  driver to use the tape drive, and then unload it once you have no
  further need for the driver (and release the associated memory).

  The lower level drivers are the ones that support the individual cards
  that are supported for the hardware platform that you are running
  under.  Examples are aha1542.o to drive Adaptec 1542 cards.

  6.1.  SCSI Required Core Support.

  6.1.1.  SCSI Core support (scsi_mod.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe scsi_mod.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.2.  SCSI High level support.

  6.2.1.  SCSI Disk support (sd_mod.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sd_mod.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.2.2.  SCSI Tape support (st.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe st.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.2.3.  SCSI CDrom support (sr_mod.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sr_mod.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.2.4.  SCSI generic support (sg.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sg.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.  SCSI Low Level Device Driver Support.

  Most SCSI-card drivers don't support module parameters, they do
  generally autoprobe for card settings.  Do read the SCSI-HOWTO
  document and README files in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi to to find
  out about your hardware.  If your card is located in some
  unconventional i/o-address you must load the driver permanently into
  the kernel and use Boottime options, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.  Optionally
  you can twiddle The Source and recompile.

  6.3.1.  7000FASST SCSI support (wd7000.o),

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe wd7000.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.2.  Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support (aha154x.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe aha154x.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.3.  Adaptec AHA1542 support (aha1542.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe aha1542.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes card at 0x330 and 0x334 only.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.4.  Adaptec AHA1740 EISA support (aha1740.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe aha1740.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.5.  Adaptec AHA274X/284X/294X support (aic7xxx.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, BIOS must be enabled.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.6.  AdvanSys SCSI support (advansys.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe advansys.o [parameters]

          asc_iopflag=1                   enable=1, disable=0 port scanning
          asc_ioport=0x110,0x330          ports to scan
          asc_dbglvl=1                    debugging level
                                             0: Errors Only
                                             1: High-Level Tracing
                                             2-N: Verbose Tracing

          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.7.  Always IN2000 SCSI support (in2000.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe in2000.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, BIOS not required.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.8.  BusLogic SCSI support (BusLogic.o).

  The list of supported BusLogic cards is long.  Read
  usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.BusLogic to get the total picture.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe BusLogic.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.9.  DTC3180/3280 SCSI support (dtc.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe dtc.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.10.  EATA ISA/EISA (DPT PM2011/021/012/022/122/322) support
  (eata.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eata.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.11.  EATA-DMA (DPT, NEC, AT&T, SNI, AST, Olivetti, Alphatronix)
  (eata_dma.o).

  Includes DPT Smartcache, Smartcache III and SmartRAID.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eata_dma.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobe works in all configurations.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.12.  EATA-PIO (old DPT PM2001, PM2012A) support (eata_pio.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eata_pio.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.13.  Future Domain 16xx SCSI support (fdomain.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe fdomain.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.14.  Generic NCR5380/53c400 SCSI support (NCR5380.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe NCR5380.o

                  ncr_irq=xx      the interrupt
                  ncr_addr=xx     the port or base address (for port or
                                  memory mapped, resp.)
                  ncr_dma=xx      the DMA
                  ncr_5380=1      to set up for a NCR5380 board
                  ncr_53c400=1    to set up for a NCR53C400 board

          modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=5 ncr_addr=0x350 ncr_5380=1
           - for a port mapped NCR5380 board or

          modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=255 ncr_addr=0xc8000 ncr_53c400=1
           - for a memory mapped NCR53C400 board with interrupts disabled.

          (255 should be specified for no or DMA interrupt,
           254 to autoprobe for an IRQ line if overridden on the command line.)

          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.15.  NCR53c406a SCSI support (NCR53c406a.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe NCR53c406a.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.16.  NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support (53c7,8xx.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 53c7,8xx.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.17.  PCI-SCSI NCR538xx family support (ncr53c8xx.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ncr53c8xx.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.18.  IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support (ppa.o).

  Check file /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ppa for detailed
  information.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ppa.o ppa_base=0x378 ppa_nybble=1

          Here are the parameters and their functions:

          Variable        Default    Description

          ppa_base        0x378   The base address of PPA's parallel port.
          ppa_speed_high  1       Microsecond i/o delay used in data transfers
          ppa_speed_low   6       Microsecond delay used in other operations
          ppa_nybble      0       1 to force the driver to use 4-bit mode.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.19.  PAS16 SCSI support(pas16.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe pas16.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, BIOS not required.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.20.  Qlogic FAS SCSI support (qlogicfas.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe qlogicfas.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.21.  Qlogic ISP SCSI support (qlogicisp.o).

  Requires firmware.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe qlogicisp.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.22.  (seagate.o).  Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-8xx SCSI
  support

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe seagate.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes for address only, irq fixed at 5.
          Requires installed BIOS.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.23.  Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support (t128.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe t128.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, requires installed BIOS.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.24.  UltraStor 14F/34F support (u14-34f.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe u14-34f.o

          No module parameters.
          Autoprobes the card, NOT 0x310 port, BIOS not required.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  6.3.25.  UltraStor SCSI support (ultrastor.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ultrastor.o

          No module parameters.
          Boottime parameters available, see BootPrompt-HOWTO.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.  Network device support

  7.1.  Required and/or optional lowlevel modules.

  7.1.1.  Optional BSD compressor for PPP (bsd_comp.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe bsd_comp.o

          No module parameters.

          Depends on ppp.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.1.2.  SLHC compressor for PPP (slhc.o).

  Routines to compress and uncompress tcp packets (for transmission over
  low speed serial lines).

  Required by SLIP and PPP (also ISDN-PPP) protocols.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe slhc.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.1.3.  A general NS8390 ethernet driver core for linux.(8390.o).

  This is the chip-specific code for many 8390-based ethernet adaptors.
  This is not a complete driver, it must be combined with board-specific
  code such as ne.o, wd.o, 3c503.o, etc.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 8390.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.2.  Dummy net driver support (dummy.o).

  This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to this
  device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP address. It
  is most commonly used in order to make your currently inactive SLIP
  address seem like a real address for local programs.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe dummy.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.3.  EQL (serial line load balancing) support (eql.o).

  If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
  usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use SLIP
  (= the protocol for sending internet traffic over telephone lines) or
  PPP (= a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like one
  double speed connection using this driver.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eql.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.4.  Frame relay DLCI support (dlci.o).

  This is support for the frame relay protocol; frame relay is a fast
  low-cost way to connect to a remote internet access provider or to
  form a private wide area network. The one physical line from your box
  to the local "switch" (i.e. the entry point to the frame relay
  network) can carry several logical point-to-point connections to other
  computers connected to the frame relay network. For a general
  explanation of the protocol, check out http://frame-
  relay.indiana.edu/4000/4000index.html on the WWW.  To use frame relay,
  you need supporting hardware (FRAD) and certain programs from the net-
  tools package as explained in Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe dlci.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.5.  Sangoma S502A FRAD support (sdla.o).

  This is a driver for the Sangoma S502A, S502E and S508 Frame Relay
  Access Devices. These are multi-protocol cards, but only frame relay
  is supported by the driver at this time. Please read
  Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sdla.o

          No module parameters.

          Depends on dlci.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.6.  PLIP (parallel port) support (plip.o).

  PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a mini
  network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) local machines. The
  parallel ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are
  connected using "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can
  transmit 4 bits at a time or using special PLIP cables, to be used on
  bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a time
  (you can find the wiring of these cables in drivers/net/README?.plip).
  The cables can be up to 15m long. This works also if one of the
  machines runs DOS/Windows and has some PLIP software installed, e.g.
  the Crynwr PLIP packet driver
  http://sunsite.cnam.fr/packages/Telnet/PC/msdos/misc/pktdrvr.txt and
  winsock or NCSA's telnet.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe plip.o io=0x378 irq=7

          io = 0
          irq = 0         (by default, uses IRQ 5 for port at 0x3bc,
                                            IRQ 7 for port at 0x378,
                                        and IRQ 2 for port at 0x278)
          (Probes ports: 0x278, 0x378, 0x3bc)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.7.  PPP (point-to-point) support (ppp.o).

  To use PPP you need an additional program called pppd as described in
  Documentation/networking/ppp.txt and in the PPP-HOWTO, available from
  sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ppp.o

          No module parameters.

          Depends on slhc.o
          Also depends on serial.o, this is not detected automatically,
          so serial.o must be loaded manually.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.8.  SLIP (serial line) support (slip.o).

  SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) is the protocol used to send
  Internet traffic over telephone lines or serial cables (also known as
  nullmodems).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe slip.o

          slip_maxdev = 256 (default value from SL_NRUNIT on slip.h)

          Depends on slhc.o
          Also depends on serial.o, this is not detected automatically,
          so serial.o must be loaded manually.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.9.  Amateur Radio and wireless network interfaces.

  7.9.1.  (baycom.o).  BAYCOM ser12 and par96 kiss emulation driver for
  AX.25

  This is a driver for Baycom style simple amateur radio modems that
  connect to either a serial interface or a parallel interface. The
  driver supports the ser12 and par96 designs. To configure the driver,
  use the setbaycom utility available from
  http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/ham/ham.html#lnxbay. For
  informations on the modems, see http://www.baycom.de and
  drivers/char/README.baycom.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe baycom.o modem=1 iobase=0x3f8 irq=4 options=1

          major   major number the driver should use; default 60
          modem   modem type of the first channel (minor 0); 1=ser12,
                  2=par96/par97, any other value invalid
          iobase  base address of the port; common values are for ser12 0x3f8,
                  0x2f8, 0x3e8, 0x2e8 and for par96/par97 0x378, 0x278, 0x3bc
          irq     interrupt line of the port; common values are for ser12 3,4
                  and for par96/par97 7
          options 0=use hardware DCD, 1=use software DCD
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.9.2.  STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP) strip.o).

  STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
  (http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/) to send Internet traffic using
  Metricom radios.  Metricom radios are small, battery powered,
  100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and weight of a
  cellular telephone.  (You may also have heard them called "Metricom
  modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads many people
  into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a phone line and
  use it as a modem.)  You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a
  serial port, although it is obviously most useful for people with
  laptop computers.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe strip.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.9.3.  WaveLAN support (wavelan.o).

  These are cards for wireless ethernet-like networking. Supported are
  AT&T GIS and NCR WaveLAN cards.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe wavelan.o

          io = 0x390      (Settable, but change not recommended)
          irq = 0         (Not honoured, if changed..)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.9.4.  WIC Radio IP bridge (wic.o).

  Support for the WIC parallel port radio bridge.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe wic.o

          It appears that devices 'wic0', 'wic1' and 'wic2' have direct
          relations to corresponding 'lpx' ports.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.9.5.  Z8530 SCC kiss emulation driver for AX.25 (scc.o).

  These cards are used to connect your Linux box to an amateur radio in
  order to communicate with other computers.  If you want to use this,
  read Documentation/networking/z8530drv.txt and the HAM-HOWTO.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe scc.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.  3COM Ethernet cards.

  7.10.1.  3c501 support (3c501.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 3c501.o

          io  = 0x280     IO base address
          irq = 5         IRQ
          (Probes ports:  0x280, 0x300)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.2.  3c503 support (3c503.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 3c503.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)
          xcvr = 0        (Use xcvr=1 to select external transceiver.)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x310, 0x330, 0x350, 0x250, 0x280, 0x2A0,0x2E0)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.3.  3c505 support (3c505.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 3c505.o

          io = 0x300
          irq = 0
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x310)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.4.  3c507 support (3c507.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 3c507.o

          io = 0x300
          irq = 0
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.5.  3c509/3c579 support (3c509.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe 3c509.o

          io = 0
          irq = 0
          ( Module load-time probing Works reliably only on EISA, ISA ID-PROBE
            IS NOT RELIABLE!  Compile this driver statically into kernel for
            now, if you need it auto-probing on an ISA-bus machine. )
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.10.6.  3c590 series "Vortex" support (3c59x.o).

  Provides support for folloving cards :

    3c590 Vortex 10Mbps.

    3c595 Vortex 100baseTX.

    3c595 Vortex 100baseT4.

    3c595 Vortex 100base-MII.

    EISA Vortex 3c597.

     ___________________________________________________________________
     Load command:
             /sbin/modprobe 3c59x.o debug=1 options=0,,12

             This sets the debug message level to minimal messages,
             sets the first card to the 10baseT transceiver, the second
             to the EEPROM-set transceiver, and the third card to operate
             in full-duplex mode using its 100baseTx transceiver.
             (Note: card ordering is set by the PCI BIOS.)

             Possible media type settings
                     0       10baseT
                     1       10Mbs AUI
                     2       undefined
                     3       10base2 (BNC)
                     4       100base-TX
                     5       100base-FX
                     6       MII (not yet available)
                     7       <Use default setting>

                     0x200   Full-duplex bit
                     0x203   10baseT full-duplex
                     0x204   100baseTx full-duplex
                     16      Bus-master enable bit (experimental use only!)

             Details of the device driver implementation are at the top of
             the source file.
     ___________________________________________________________________

  7.11.  Western Digital/SMC Ethernet cards.

  7.11.1.  WD80*3 support (wd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe wd.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ val. read from EEPROM, ancient cards use autoIRQ)
          mem = 0         (Force shared-memory on address 0xC8000, or whatever..)
          mem_end = 0     (Force non-std. mem. size via supplying mem_end val.)
                          (eg. for 32k WD8003EBT, use mem=0xd0000 mem_end=0xd8000
          (Probes ports:  0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x240)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.11.2.  SMC Ultra/EtherEZ support (smc-ultra.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe smc-ultra.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ val. read from EEPROM)
          (Probes ports:  0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x280, 0x300, 0x340, 0x380)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.11.3.  SMC 9194 support (smc9194.o).

  This is a driver for SMC's 9000 series of Ethernet cards.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe smc9194.o

          io = 0          for the base address
          irq = 0         for the IRQ
          ifport = 0      for autodetect, 1 for TP, 2 for AUI ( or 10base2 )

          Probes ports:   0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2C0, 0x2E0,
                          0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3A0, 0x3C0, 0x3E0

          Debug level setable in smc9194.c driver code.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.  Other Ethernet cards.

  7.12.1.  AT1700 support (at1700.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe at1700.o

          io = 0x260
          irq = 0

          (Probes ports: 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x240, 0x340, 0x320, 0x380, 0x300)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.2.  Cabletron E21xx support (e2100.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe e2100.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ software selected by driver)
          mem = 0         (Override default shared memory start of 0xd0000)
          xcvr = 0        (Use xcvr=1 to select external transceiver.)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x220)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.3.  DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support (depca.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe depca.o

          io = 0x200
          irq = 7
          (Probes ports:  ISA:  0x300, 0x200;
                          EISA: 0x0c00            )
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.4.  EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support (ewrk3.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ewrk3.o

          io = 0x300
          irq = 5
          (With module no autoprobing!
           On EISA-bus does EISA probing.
           Static linkage probes ports on ISA bus:
                  0x100, 0x120, 0x140, 0x160, 0x180, 0x1A0, 0x1C0,
                  0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2C0, 0x2E0,
                  0x300,        0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3A0, 0x3C0)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.5.  EtherExpress 16 support (eexpress.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eexpress.o

          io = 0x300
          irq = 0         (IRQ value read from EEPROM)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x270, 0x320, 0x340)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.6.  EtherExpressPro support (eepro.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eepro.o

          io = 0x200
          irq = 0
          (Probes ports: 0x200, 0x240, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.7.  Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184 support (fmv18x.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe fmv18x.o

          io = 0x220      for the base address
          irq = 0         for the IRQ

          Probes ports: 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x2c0, 0x300, 0x340
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.8.  HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support (hp-plus.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe hp-plus.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ read from configuration register)
          (Probes ports: 0x200, 0x240, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.9.  HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support (hp.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe hp.o

          io = 0          (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x200, 0x240)

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.10.  HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support (hp100.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe hp100.o

          hp100_port = 0 (IO-base address)

          (Does EISA-probing, if on EISA-slot;
          On ISA-bus probes all ports from 0x100 thru to 0x3E0
          in increments of 0x020)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.11.  ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support (eth16i.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe eth16i.o

          io = 0x2a0      (It will complain if you don't supply an "io=0xNNN")
          irq = 0         (IRQ software selected by driver using autoIRQ)

          Probed ports on eth16i card :
          0x260, 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x240, 0x340, 0x320, 0x380, 0x300

          Probed ports in eth32i card :
          0x1000, 0x2000, 0x3000, 0x4000, 0x5000, 0x6000, 0x7000, 0x8000,
          0x9000, 0xA000, 0xB000, 0xC000, 0xD000, 0xE000, 0xF000
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.12.  NE2000/NE1000 support (ne.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ne.o

          io = 0          (Explicitly *requires* an "io=0xNNN" value)
          irq = 0         (Tries to determine configured IRQ via autoIRQ)
          (Probes ports: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360)
          bad             The value 0xBAD means to assume the card is poorly
          designed in that it does not acknowledge a reset or does not
          have a valid 0x57,0x57 signature. If you have such a card
          and do not specify this option, the driver will not recognize it.
          debug = 0        Level of debugging messages.
          full_duplex = 1  If set to 1 the adapter is in full duplex mode.
                           If set to 0 it is set in half-duplex.

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.12.13.  NI5210 support (ni52.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ni52.o

          io=0x360
          irq=9
          memstart=0xd0000
          memend=0xd4000

          Don't use autoprobing, io=0
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.13.  EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers

  7.13.1.  Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (ac3200.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ac3200.o

          As this is an EISA board, Autoprobe should work.

          Depends on 8390.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.13.2.  Apricot Xen-II on board ethernet (apricot.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe apricot.o

          io = 0x300  (Can't be altered!)
          irq = 10
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.13.3.  DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450, DE500 support (de4x5.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe de4x5.o

          io = 0x000b
          irq = 10
          is_not_dec = 0
          For non-DEC card using DEC 21040/21041/21140 chip, set this to 1
          (EISA, and PCI probing)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.13.4.  DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support (tulip.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe tulip.o

          Read Documentation/networking/tulip.txt in the Linux source tree for full information.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.13.5.  Digi Intl. RightSwitch SE-X support (dgrs.o).

  This is a Linux driver for the Digi International RightSwitch SE-X
  EISA and PCI boards.  These are 4 (EISA) or 6 (PCI) port ethernet
  switches and a NIC combined into a single board.

  There is a tool for setting up input and output packet filters on each
  port, called "dgrsfilt".

  The management tool lets you watch the performance graphically, as
  well as set the SNMP agent IP and IPX addresses, IEEE Spanning Tree,
  and Aging time.  These can also be set from the command line when the
  driver is loaded.

  There is also a companion management tool, called "xrightswitch".

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe dgrs.o

          debug=NNN               Debug printing level
          dma=0/1                 Disable/Enable DMA on PCI card
          spantree=0/1            Disable/Enable IEEE spanning tree
          hashexpire=NNN          Change address aging time (default 300 seconds)
          ipaddr=A,B,C,D          Set SNMP agent IP address i.e. 199,86,8,221
          ipxnet=NNN              Set SNMP agent IPX network number
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.14.  Pocket and portable adaptors

  7.14.1.  D-Link DE600 pocket adaptor support (de600.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe de600.o

          de600_debug = 0
          (On port 0x378, irq 7 -- lpt1;  compile time configurable)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.14.2.  D-Link DE620 pocket adaptor support (de620.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe de620.o

          bnc = 1/0      Media is/is not 10Base2        
          utp = 1/0      Media is/is not 10BaseT
          (cannot specify both to '1')
          io = 0x378     (also compile-time configurable)
          irq = 7
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.15.  Token Ring driver support

  7.15.1.  Tropic chipset based adaptor support (ibmtr.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ibmtr.o io=0xa20 irq=0

          io = 0xa20      You should not use auto-probing with insmod
          irq = 0
  ______________________________________________________________________

  7.16.  ARCnet support (arcnet.o).

  Read The Fine Information at
  /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt.  Also Arcnet
  hardware information arcnet-hardware.txt is found in same place.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe arcnet.o io=0x300 irq=2 shmem=0xd0000

          You can name the device using something like "device=arc1"
          (for a second card) or "device=eth0" (for weird reasons) if you like.

          (When probing, looks at the following possible addresses:
           Suggested ones:
                  0x300, 0x2E0, 0x2F0, 0x2D0
           Other ones:
                  0x200, 0x210, 0x220, 0x230, 0x240, 0x250, 0x260, 0x270,
                  0x280, 0x290, 0x2A0, 0x2B0, 0x2C0,
                         0x310, 0x320, 0x330, 0x340, 0x350, 0x360, 0x370,
                  0x380, 0x390, 0x3A0,                      0x3E0, 0x3F0  )
  ______________________________________________________________________

  8.  ISDN subsystem

  Setting up ISDN-networking is a complicated task.  Read documentation
  found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn.

  8.1.  ISDN support (isdn.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe isdn.o

          No module parameters.

          Depends on slhc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  8.2.  ICN 2B and 4B support (icn.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe icn.o [parameters]

          portbase=p membase=m icn_id=idstring [icn_id2=idstring2]

          p = portbase            Address of base I/O port (default: 0x320)
          m = shared memory       Address of shared memory (default: 0xd0000)
          icn_id                  Idstring for the first adapter
	  icn_id2                 Idstring for the second adapter

          When using the ICN double card, you MUST define TWO idstrings.
          idstring must start with a character!

          Depends on isdn.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  8.3.  PCBIT-D support (pcbit.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe pcbit.o

          mem = 0         Shared memory address, default = 0xd0000
          irq = 0         default = 5

          Depends on isdn.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  8.4.  Teles/NICCY1016PC/Creatix support (teles.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe teles.o io=.....

          io=m0,i0,p0,d0[,m1,i1,p1,d1 ... ,mn,in,pn,dn] teles_id=idstring

          m0 = shared memory of 1st card.         (default: 0xd0000
          i0 = irq of 1st card.                   (default: 15)
          p0 = portbase of 1st card.              (default: 0xd80)
          d0 = D-channel protocol of 1st card.    1=1TR6, 2=EDSS1 (default: 2)

          p1,i1,m1,d1 = Parameters of second card (defaults: none)
          pn,in,mn,d1 = Parameters of n'th card (up to 16 cards are supported)

          idstring = Driver-Id for accessing with utilities and identification
          when using a Line-monitor. (default: none) idstring must start with a character!

          The type of the card is determined by the port, irq and shared memory:

          port == 0, shared memory != 0   -> Teles S0-8
          port != 0, shared memory != 0   -> Teles S0-16.0
          port != 0, shared memory == 0   -> Teles S0-16.3

          Depends on isdn.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.  CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)

  9.1.  Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes/TXC/CyDROM support (aztcd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe aztcd.o aztcd=[baseaddress]

          aztcd          address of the base I/O port

          Read Documentation/cdrom/aztcd in the Linux source tree for full information.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.2.  Goldstar R420 CDROM support (gscd.o).

  For all kind of other information about the GoldStar R420 CDROM and
  this Linux device driver there is a WWW-URL Page installed:
  http://linux.rz.fh-hannover.de/~raupach.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe gscd.o gscd=[address]

          The default base address is 0x340.
          This will work for most applications.
          Address selection is accomplished by jumpers PN801-1 to PN801-4
          on the GoldStar Interface Card.
          Appropriate settings are: 0x300, 0x310, 0x320, 0x330, 0x340, 0x350,
          0x360, 0x370, 0x380, 0x390, 0x3A0, 0x3B0, 0x3C0, 0x3D0, 0x3E0, 0x3F0
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.3.  Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC support
  (sbpcd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sbpcd.o sbpcd=[address], x

          address = ioaddress
          x       = SBPRO setting, read Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd in Linux source tree
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.4.  Mitsumi (standard) no XA/Multisession support (mcd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe mcd.o mcd=0x300,11,0x304,5

          Where mcd is a comma separated list of i/o base addresses 
          and IRQs in pairs.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.5.  Mitsumi XA/MultiSession support (mcdx.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe mcdx.o mcdx=0x300,11,0x304,5

          Where mcdx is a comma separated list of i/o base addresses 
          and IRQs in pairs.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.6.  Optics Storage DOLPHIN 8000AT CDROM support (optcd.o).

  This is the driver for the so-called 'DOLPHIN' drive, with the 34-pin
  Sony-compatible interface. For the IDE-compatible Optics Storage 8001
  drive, you will want the ATAPI CDROM driver. The driver also seems to
  work with the Lasermate CR328A.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe optcd.o optcd=0x340

          Where the optcd parameter is the base address of the I/O port of your card.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.7.  Philips/LMS CM206 CDROM support (cm206.o).

  This is the driver for the Philips/LMS cdrom drive cm206 in
  combination with the cm260 host adapter card.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe cm206.o cm206=0x300,11

          Where the cmd206 parameters are the base I/O port 
          and irq of your card, separated by a comma. It doesn't
    	  matter what order you put them in, and you may specify just
	  one, in which case the other defaults to the compiled-in value.

  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.8.  Sanyo CDR-H94A CDROM support (sjcd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sjcd.o sjcd_base=0x340

          Where parameter is the base I/O port address of your card.
          Default address = 0x340,  no irq,  no dma.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.9.  ISP16/MAD16/Mozart soft configurable cdrom interface support
  (isp16.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe isp16.o [parameters]

          isp16_cdrom_base=<port>
          isp16_cdrom_irq=<irq>
          isp16_cdrom_dma=<dma>
          isp16_cdrom_type=<drive_type>

          Valid values are:
            port=0x340,0x320,0x330,0x360
            irq=0,3,5,7,9,10,11
            dma=0,3,5,6,7
            drive_type=noisp16,Sanyo,Panasonic,Sony,Mitsumi.

            Note that these options are case sensitive.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.10.  Sony CDU31A/CDU33A CDROM support (cdu31a.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe cdu31a.o [parameters]

          cdu31a_port=<I/O address> - sets the base I/O.
          This must be specified.

          cdu31a_irq=<interrupt> - Sets the interrupt number.
          Leaving this off will turn interrupts off.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  9.11.  Sony CDU535 CDROM support (sonycd535.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sonycd535.o sonycd535=[address]

          Where parameter is the base I/O port address of your card.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.  Filesystems

  10.1.  Minix fs support(minix.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe minix.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.2.  Extended fs support (ext.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ext.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.3.  Second extended fs support (ext2.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ext2.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.4.  xiafs filesystem support (xiafs.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe xiafs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.5.  DOS FAT fs support (fat.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe fat.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.6.  MSDOS fs support (msdos.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe msdos.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on fat.o.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.7.  VFAT (Windows-95) fs support (vfat.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe vfat.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on fat.o.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.8.  UMSDOS: Unix like fs on top of std MSDOS FAT fs (umsdos.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe vfat.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on fat.o and msdos.o.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.9.  NFS filesystem support (nfs.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe nfs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.10.  SMB filesystem support (to mount WfW shares etc..) (smbfs.o).

  smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB protocol. This is the
  protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or Lan Manager use to talk
  to each other. smbfs was inspired by samba, the program written by
  Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix host into a file server for DOS or
  Windows clients.  See ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/ for
  this interesting program suite and lots of more information on SMB and
  NetBIOS over TCP/IP. There you also find explanation for concepts like
  netbios name or share.

  To use smbfs, you need a special mount program, which can be found in
  the ksmbfs package, found on
  sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/smbfs.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe smbfs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.11.  NCP filesystem support (to mount NetWare volumes) (ncpfs.o).

  ncpfs is a filesystem which understands the NCP protocol, designed by
  the Novell Corporation for their NetWare(tm) product. NCP is
  functionally similar to the NFS used in the tcp/ip community.  To
  mount a Netware-Filesystem, you need a special mount program, which
  can be found in ncpfs package. Homesite for ncpfs is
  ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs, but sunsite and its many mirrors
  will have it as well.

  Related products are linware and mars_nwe, which will give Linux
  partial NetWare Server functionality.

  Linware's home site is: klokan.sh.cvut.cz/pub/linux/linware,

  Mars_nwe can be found on ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ncpfs.o

          No module parameters.

          Depends on ipx.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.12.  ISO9660 cdrom filesystem support (isofs.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe isofs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.13.  OS/2 HPFS filesystem support (read only) (hpfs.o)

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe hpfs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.14.  System V and Coherent filesystem support (sysv.o).

  This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for
  Linux.

  It implements all of

    Xenix FS,

    SystemV/386 FS,

    Coherent FS.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sysv.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.15.  Amiga FFS filesystem support  (affs.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe affs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  10.16.  UFS filesystem support (read only) (ufs.o).

  Apparently for mounting disks with FreeBSD and/or Sun partitions.  No
  documentation exists, apart from The Source.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ufs.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.  Character devices

  11.1.  Support for user misc device modules (misc.o).

  This module is used by atixlmouse, busmouse, msbusmouse, psaux, wdt
  and softdog modules and it is automatically generated if required.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe misc.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.2.  Standard/generic serial support (serial.o).

  NOTE: serial.o is required by other modules, like ppp.o and slip.o.
  Also it is required by serial mouse and accordingly by gpm.  However
  this dependency is not detected by present tools and module serial.o
  must be loaded manually.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe serial.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.3.  Cyclades async mux support (cyclades.o)

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe cyclades.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.4.  Stallion multiport serial support

  The intelligent boards also need to have their "firmware" code
  downloaded to them. This is done via a user level application supplied
  in the driver package called "stlload". Compile this program where
  ever you dropped the package files, by typing "make". In its simplest
  form you can then type

  in this directory and that will download board 0 (assuming board 0 is
  an EasyConnection 8/64 board). To download to an ONboard, Brumby or
  Stallion do:

  Read the information at /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/README.stallion.

  11.4.1.  Stallion EasyIO or EC8/32 support (stallion.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe stallion.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.4.2.  Stallion EC8/64, ONboard, Brumby support (istallion.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe istallion.o

          No module parameters.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.5.  SDL RISCom/8 card support (riscom8.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe riscom8.o [options]

          This driver can support up to 4 boards at time.
          Options : iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=...

  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.6.  Parallel printer support (lp.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe lp.o io=0x378 irq=0

          io = 0
          irq = 0         irq=0 will run in polled mode

          (Probes ports: 0x278, 0x378, 0x3bc)
          Note: loading lp.o without any parameters will
          grab all parallelports.
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.7.  Bus Mouse Support

  11.7.1.  ATIXL busmouse support (atixlmouse.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe atixlmouse.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.7.2.  Logitech busmouse support (busmouse.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe busmouse.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.7.3.  Microsoft busmouse support (msbusmouse.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe msbusmouse.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.7.4.  PS/2 mouse (aka "auxiliary device") support (psaux.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe psaux.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.8.  Tape support

  For support of SCSI tapedrives, see section SCSI Support.  Support for
  QIC-02 tapes is not modularized.

  11.8.1.  Ftape (QIC-80/Travan) support (ftape.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe ftape.o tracing=3

          Optional parameter 'tracing' can take following values

          set it to:     to get:
            0             bugs
            1             + errors
            2             + warnings
            3             + information           ** Default **
            4             + more information
            5             + program flow
            6             + fdc/dma info
            7             + data flow
            8             + everything else
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.9.  Watchdog Timer Support

  11.9.1.  WDT Watchdog timer (wdt.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe wdt.o

          No module parameters.
          The device address is hardcode to io=0x240 and the 
          IRQ is hardcoded to irq=14.
          Make any required changes to the wdt.c sources directly.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.9.2.  Software Watchdog (softdog.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe softdog.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  11.9.3.  Berkshire Products PC Watchdog (pcwd.o).

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe pcwd.o

          No module parameters.
          Depends on misc.o
  ______________________________________________________________________

  12.  Sound support (sound.o).

  Configuring sound is a complex task, there is a number of Readme-files
  in directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound, read them.

  ______________________________________________________________________
  Load command:
          /sbin/modprobe sound.o [option]

          Option: dma_buffsize=32768
  ______________________________________________________________________

  13.  Closing

  If you have found any glaring typos, or outdated info in this
  document, please let me know. It is easy to overlook stuff.

  Thanks,

  Lauri Tischler, ltischler@efore.fi