Question About Module Loading

[James Mcphee]

Normally blacklist mods that I don't like in /etc/modules.d/blacklist.*
files.

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:

> 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!
> ----
> /lib/modules/_ YOUR_KERNEL _/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
>
> Craig
>
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