modprobe and insmod

Gonefar · 06-05-2013, 06:39 AM

Hello，everyone！
Recently，I found a puzzled problem. In my embedded linux system, I have 3 wireless cards with 2 3g cards and a wifi card.
If I firstly modprobe the two 3g cards and then insmod the wifi card's driver, it worked well. However, if I firstly insmod the wifi card's driver and then modprobe the 3g cards, the wifi card should can's work as I can't find wlan0...

More help and advice needed ! thank you!

pan64 · 06-05-2013, 07:34 AM

see man insmod and man modprobe, modprobe is much more intelligent.

Gonefar · 06-07-2013, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by pan64

see man insmod and man modprobe, modprobe is much more intelligent.

Well, I know that modprobe is more intelligent as it will install other modules if needed. What I want to find out is that whether the modprobe will influence insmod? On the standing of my situation, it seems it is. Thank you.