modprobe

Add or remove modules from the Linux kernel. See also: kmod, for other module management commands. More information: https://manned.org/modprobe.

• Pretend to load a module into the kernel, but don't actually do it:

sudo modprobe --dry-run module_name

• Load a module into the kernel:

sudo modprobe module_name

• Remove a module from the kernel:

sudo modprobe --remove module_name

• Remove a module and those that depend on it from the kernel:

sudo modprobe --remove-dependencies module_name

• Show a kernel module's dependencies:

sudo modprobe --show-depends module_name