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Re: Blacklisting modules



On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:39PM +0000, Robin wrote:
> I have an onboard rtl8187 wireless usb chip which I want to disable but
> which cannot be disabled from bios. I added 'blacklist rtl8187' to
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but the module still loads. Any ideas whereelse to
> check?

Try 'install rtl8187 /bin/true' instead of the 'blacklist' if this 
doesn't work than the module is loaded somewhere else, probably in your 
initrd, which will need to be rebuilt.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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