Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

["marco restelli" <mrestelli@gmail.com>]

On 2/10/07, Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com> wrote:
> (Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and
> it hasn't appeared on the list yet)
>
> marco restelli wrote:
> > Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> > I have been using ndiswrapper.
>
> I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
> module by udev as follows:
>
> Find out the module alias used by udev:
>
>   cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias
>
> (Replace wlan0 by the name of your interface). Here this gives:
>
>   pci:v000014E4d00004324sv00001028sd00000003bc02sc80i00
>
> Create the file /etc/modules.d/blacklist with the following content:
>
>   alias pci:v000014E4d00004324sv00001028sd00000003bc02sc80i00 off
>
> (Use the alias you got with the command above). Then run modules-update.

Remy, it works. Thanks very much.

>
> Easy, isn't it? ;-)

Uh, I am glad we have this great mailing list and great community!
    Marco
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