Debian:Hardware configuration

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Debian does automatic dection and module loading using discover as well as hotplug. discover searches for hardware upon boot such as network cards and loads their appropriate drivers. hotplug is also started upon boot and loads USB, but it stays running for the life of the system to initialize hardware that is plugged in later.

Some things to keep in mind though is that sometimes discover or hotplug may try to load drivers it shouldn't. For this, you can add the module to the "skip" section in /etc/discover.conf if it is handled by discover. If it is handled by hotplug, you can it to the blacklist in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.

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