On Thursday, 19 בApril 2007 10:16, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> I have here FC4 on my laptop, and I had its wifi nicely installed -
> up untill yesterday. Now, even when I want to take it down with
> rmmod ipw2200
> and take its network interface down, something reloads it again
> (and take the interface up with it, dhclient included).
It's modprobe called by the kernel. You must have something like:
alias eth1 ipw2200
In modprobe configuration (usually on RH/Fedora kudzu create these
entries on boot as a result of hardware detection).
You can verify it (I just did with my Fedora-6) by commenting out
this statement. Make sure you got what you want by:
modeprobe -c | grep ipw2200 # dump configuration
The one thing that still puzzle me is: what mechanism in the kernel
triggered invocation of modprobe in this case (the hardware was not
hotplugged).
If kudzu keep inserting this statement each boot, you have three options:
1. Disable kudzu altogether:
chkconfig kudzu off
2. Blacklist ipw2200 from automatic modprobe loading. Put the line:
blacklist ipw2200
into a file in /etc/modprobe.d/
3. Ditto, but putting:
alias ipw2200 off
into /etc/modprobe.conf or a file in /etc/modprobe.d/
(this alias was the 'blacklist' mechanism in old modprobe in before
kernel 2.6, but it's still supported AFAIK. I don't know why this
syntax was changed to 'blacklist' and if it's deprecated or not).
Cheers,
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