X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4cee11bc0807091952y28e65affvce86766544611e55@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:52:16 -0700 From: "Sam Hanes" To: "Cygwin General List" Subject: Re: use 'insmod' inside cygwin In-Reply-To: <18374837.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <18374837.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com rike_lin wrote: > > I'm a new member for cygwin. As I known, the cygwin is a unix-like shell > environment for the windows platform. It might not include the function > 'insmod'. Is it correct? Or, is it possible to use 'insmod' inside cygwin > and how to do it? > `insmod` is the POSIX command to load a kernel module into the running kernel. Cygwin is just a POSIX emulation layer on top of Windows, and thus doesn't have a kernel. You can't load modules into a non-extant kernel, so there's no reason to include `insmod`. What are you trying to do that needs `insmod`? The only reason I can think of that you'd need to load modules is for device drivers, and Cygwin doesn't deal directly with hardware. If you want to access your hardware from Cygwin, make sure it works on Windows. Cygwin can't do antyhing Windows can't. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/