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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
+insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
+modprobe and rmmod programs.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<sect3><title>depmod</title>
+
+<para>
+depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>genksyms</title>
+
+<para>
+genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc  -E source.c 
+and generates a file containing version information.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>insmod</title>
+
+<para>
+insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
+
+<para>
+insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 
+2 days.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>kerneld</title>
+
+<para>
+kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of 
+modules)
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
+
+<para>
+kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>ksyms</title>
+
+<para>
+ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>lsmod</title>
+
+<para>
+lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>modinfo</title>
+
+<para>
+modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and 
+displays any  information that it can glean.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>modprobe</title>
+
+<para>
+Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod, 
+to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules 
+available in predefined directory trees.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>rmmod</title>
+
+<para>
+rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+