Normally, the system automatically unloads device drivers when they are no longer in use. During development, it may be necessary to use modunload(1M) to unload the driver before installing a new version. In order for modunload(1M) to be successful, the device driver must not be active; there must be no outstanding references to the device, such as through open(2) or mmap(2).
Use modunload(1M) to unload a driver from the system:
# modunload -i module_id
In addition to being inactive, the driver must have working detach(9E) and _fini(9E) routines for modunload(1M) to succeed.
To unload all currently unloadable modules, specify module ID zero:
# modunload -i 0