man modprobe
man insmod
modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel:
note that for convenience, there is no difference between _ and - in
module names. modprobe looks in the module directory /lib/mod-
ules/`uname -r` for all the modules and other files, except for the
optional /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file (see modprobe.conf(5)).
insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel: if the
filename is a hyphen, the module is taken from standard input. Most
users will want to use modprobe(
instead, which is cleverer.
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