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Re: Blacklisting does not work...



On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:52:16PM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:35:54 +1000
> "Fawad Nazir" <fawad.nazir@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am using Ubuntu 5.10, Linux v.2.6.16.5 and trying to use
> > hostap_cs driver for my prism chipset card instead of orinoco_cs.
> > 
> > I am trying to blacklist orinoco & orinoco_cs drivers. I have
> > tried three things:
> > 
> > 1. I added these driver names in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
> > 
> > 2. I also tried to do:
> > fawad@Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ echo 'blacklist orinoco' | sudo tee
> > -a /etc/modprobe.d/my_blacklist
> > blacklist orinoco
> > fawad@Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ echo 'blacklist orinoco_cs' | sudo
> > tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/my_blacklist
> > blacklist orinoco_cs
> > 
> > 3. I also tried $sudo modprobe -r orinoco_cs
> >                       $sudo modprobe -r orinocu_cs
> > 
> > But still when i plug my PCMCIA card, automatically orinoco_cs
> > driver is loaded and is assigned to my card.
> > 
> > fawad@Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ ls -al
> > /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0
> > 2006-05-17 10:26 /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver ->
> > ../../../../../bus/pcmcia/drivers/orinoco_cs
> > 

try a grep /etc/* orinoco and see if its listed anywhere else. Is it
possible for other module stuff to override the blacklisting? just a
thought.

A

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