Question About Module Loading

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 22:30 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I just installed Debian stable (2.6-amd64 kernel) on a machine. I had
> to remove the kernel module for the Ethernet card and add a different
> one. The new module compiled etc and works. However, I had a problem
> preventing the old module from loading. There was no modprobe.conf
> file, but instead a directory modprobe.d with a lot of files in it.
> However, I could not find the expected alias line with the bad
> module's name. I finally googled a solution, and I am curious if this
> is the new way to disabling a kernel module:
> I created a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ called 00local. That file has one
> line: install r8169 /bin/true. This prevented the module r8169 from
> being loaded. I grepped all of /etc/ looking for r8169 and could not
> find where it was being loaded. I am so confused....
>  
> G'night and Happy Holidays to everyone!
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/lib/modules/_ YOUR_KERNEL _/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko

Craig


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