4.5 Initializing the WILC Device

Insert the WILC1000 SD card device into the SD Card slot.
Copy the wilc-sdio.ko (driver/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000) to the root file system using the USB mass storage drive by using the following commands:
```
$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ cp /mnt/wilc-sdio.ko .
```
Initialize the WILC device by inserting the wilc-sdio.ko module using the following command:
```
 $insmod wilc-sdio.ko
```
Note: After successful completion of the process, the wlan0 interface is up and starts running.

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