Op 20081026 om 19:19 schreef Brian Thompson: > Has anyone had any success with disabling/blacklisting a > kernel module? The Debian docs show the following but > it's not working for me on 2.6.18-6-sparc64... The module > still loads.
It was a long time ago that I succesfull blacklisted a kernel module. >> Sometimes two different modules claim support for the same device, >> usually because two slightly different versions of the device exist, >> requiring different kernel modules to operate. In such situation udev >> loads both kernel modules, with unpredictable results. To avoid this >> problem, you can prevent any module (let's say, tulip) from loading by >> creating an arbitrarily named file, containing a line >> >> blacklist tulip >> That doc doesn't tell the full path of the "black list file" Being curious about the full path, I searched on system here available and found /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist It didn't contain module names I had add myself, so now I'm curious if /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist works for the original poster. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

