Loading the qeth device driver modules

6.10 LPAR mode z/VM guest

If the qeth device driver was not built into the kernel, you must load it before you can work with qeth devices.

Use the modprobe command to load the qeth device driver, and to automatically load all required additional modules in the correct order:

qeth module syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagrammodprobe  qeth qeth_l2 qeth_l3
where:
qeth
is the core module that contains common functions that are used for both layer 2 and layer 3 disciplines.
qeth_l2
is the module that contains layer 2 discipline-specific code.
qeth_l3
is the module that contains layer 3 discipline-specific code.

When a qeth device is configured for a particular discipline, the driver tries to automatically load the corresponding discipline module. Automatic loading requires that automatic kernel module loading is enabled in the distribution.