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Howto: Display List of Modules or Device Drivers In the Linux Kernel

H ow do I display the list of loaded Linux Kernel modules or device drivers on Linux operating systems?

You need to use lsmod program which show the status of loaded modules in the Linux Kernel. Linux kernel use a term modules for all hardware device drivers.

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Easy
Root privileges	Yes
Requirements	lsmod
Est. reading time	Less than a one minute

Please note hat lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules , showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

This is an important task. With lsmod you can verify that device driver is loaded for particular hardware. Any hardware device will only work if device driver is loaded.

Task: List or display loaded modules

Open a terminal or login over the ssh session and type the following command
$ less /proc/modules
Sample outputs:

To see nicely formatted output, type:
$ lsmod
Sample outputs:

First column is Module name and second column is the size of the modules i..e the output format is module name, size, use count, list of referring modules.

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Finding more info about any module or driver

Type the following command:
# modinfo driver-Name-Here
# modinfo thermal_sys
# modinfo e1000e
Sample outputs:

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Linux: Find out what kernel drivers (modules) are loaded

lsmod command

You need to use lsmod command to show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel. Simply type the lsmod at a shell prompt to list all loaded modules:
$ lsmod
Sample outputs:

Get more information about the driver

To get more information about specific driver use modinfo command. The syntax is:
modinfo < driver-name >
To see information about a Linux Kernel module called e1000, enter:
$ modinfo e1000
Sample outputs:

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See modinfo and lsmod man pages for more info.

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modprobe, lsmod, modinfo Command Tutorial With Examples To Load, List Linux Kernel Modules

What makes an Operating system Linux Distribution? All Linux distributions use same kernel named Linux Kernel. Linux kernel provides operating system services, hardware management, process management, memory management etc.

Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel which means single executable all in one. But the operating systems should provide dynamic environments to comply user needs. Linux provides mechanism to load some drivers, features etc. This is called kernel modules. In this tutorial we will look kernel modules operations with modprobe command. Most of the examples in this tutorial requires root privileges.

List Available Kernel Modules

Linux kernel came with a lot of default kernel modules. These modules are loaded according to requirements and kernel config provided by the distribution. There is also an option to add new kernel modules externally to the Linux. We can list all of these modules with lsmod command

List Available Kernel Modules

List Available Kernel Modules

List Loaded Modules

As we know kernel modules are loaded or unloaded. We can list only installed kernel modules by using previous command. but in this command we need some external help. We will use egrep to filter installed kernel modules.

List Loaded Modules

Get Information About Kernel Module

Kernel modules can get different parameter for configuration purposes. Also there are different type of information. Here are some of them which can be listed with modinfo command.

• filename what is modules file name and the path
• license modules license type like GPL,GPL2,Apache,TM
• description short description about the kernel module
• depends specify what other kernel modules are needed to load this module
• intree specify if this kernel module is maintained in kernel git repository
• vermagic specifies the version of the kernel module
• parm specifies parameter that can be used to configure this kernel module.

Get Information About Kernel Module

Load or Install New Kernel Modules

Generally Linux operating system automatically loads related kernel modules. There is no need to load them manually in most situations. But some times manual operation may be needed to load kernel modules. We will install module named ipx by using insmod in this example.

Remove or Unload Loaded Kernel Module

We can remove kernel modules. We will use modprobe command again with -r option by providing the kernel module name. In this example we unload ipx kernel module

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Thread: List of hardware and drivers

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List of hardware and drivers

How do I view the hardware that I have on my machine and the drivers that are being used?

Re: List of hardware and drivers

Go to the terminal and type

Re: List of hardware and drivers

Thanks, this shows the hardware but how can I see the drivers?

Re: List of hardware and drivers

First a little note on lshw, I have always found having it output html to a file and openning in the browser a lot easier to read:

Re: List of hardware and drivers

In my case the driver ath5k_pci is being used for my wireless adapter.

Re: List of hardware and drivers

Thanks for that info, I hadn’t really gone through the output of lshw properly, this will be very useful as I will soon be compiling a custom kernel for a very low-powered system.

Re: List of hardware and drivers

I cannot see the version of driver. Is there any other way? And how can I quickly go to the post I’m waiting for a replay in that?

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How to get a list of active drivers that are statically built into the linux kernel?

While I can use lsmod in order to show currently active kernel modules, how can I see which drivers are statically built into the kernel AND currently active?

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You could do a cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin

modules.builtin

This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.

If your linux has a /proc/config.gz

That has all the built modules. Copy it elsewhere and unzip it. Open the file everything with a «=M» is built as a module. Everything with a «=Y» is statically built.

hwinfo will list the «Driver:» check the above file to see if it is statically built.

FYI: All statically built drivers are always loaded into memory and ready for action. Without the corresponding hardware they will not do anything, but use memory.

The sysfs module area /sys/module is a view into all the modules visible to the running kernel. Each module directory has a set of sysfs interface files to view and manage the module via userspace. Generally speaking, the LKMs have a refcnt file, which will be greater than 0 if it is being used along with a holder directory of those modules using it. The builtin modules do not have this file (or many others like initstate and taint .)

Try find /sys/module -name refcnt -printf ‘\n%p: ‘ -exec cat <> \; to see which are being used.

Under many modules is a parameters directory containing the parameters that can be viewed and modified from user-space. In the source this is generally a call to a module_param macro. For example, see kernel/printk.c and the module /sys/module/printk/parameters for some useful printk tuning.

All entities under /sys/module are set in the kernel module framework. Some are hardware drivers, some are netfilter, some are filesystems, some debug, etc.

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