.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "DEV_LOAD" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME dev_load \- load a network module .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void dev_load (const char * \fIname\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIname\fB\fR name of interface .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP If a network interface is not present and the process has suitable privileges this function loads the module. If module loading is not available in this kernel then it becomes a nop.