Hello Joco,

I suppose you are a visitor to the OpenBSD realm coming from the Linux world 
(I may be wrong - apologies if yes :).

Kernel modules are nothing unusual in the Linux kernel, but here at OpenBSD 
things look a bit different. First of all, I must inform you that the OpenBSD 
kernel is kept strictly monolithic. There is a possibility to load kernel 
modules, but it is not the default way intended to enable device drivers or 
other kernel parts. If you want to enable a specific device driver or 
function, you must edit the kernel configuration file (found 
in /usr/src/sys/arch/your_architecture/config/GENERIC, this is the default 
kernel configuration file - and the only one supported when you want to 
report bugs or problems), recompile the whole kernel and boot up with it.

I won't go into further detail with this issue - if you want to enable 
something that is disabled by default, you can find more information about 
this in the OpenBSD FAQ (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why). 


HTH, HAND
Lukas
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