Manually installing a driver or module on Linux

This varies slightly depending on your distribution, but the general steps are:

(1) unload the current driver (if it exists)

# rmmod driver_name/code>

(2) copy the driver/module to the kernel's modules directory

# cp driver_name.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/specific_directory_for_your_driver/code>

(3) load the new driver

# modprobe driver_name

On Debian and Ubuntu, you also need to update the ramdisk so the driver will load automatically after a reboot:

# update-initramfs -u

That's it !