How do I recover from modprobe mistakes?
Greetings:
Last night I was playing around with a new install on my IBM R40 laptop.
I'm making this a lean, fast system. I loaded just the base system and
was building from there. I was looking for some monitoring tools and
tried lm_sensors (I did the sensor-detect) and then discovered that some
Thinkpads can be damaged (messes with the EEPROM security chip) by the
scan process and/or the i2c-i801 module and I was looking at what I
needed to do to back away from this.
I thought that when I'd originally done a modprobe -l there had been
only a half a pagefull listed there, but later when I did the same
command there were many more modules listed. I recall trying to do a
modprobe -l with a wildcard as I was looking for a particular module and
I goofed and left out the -l . Which leads me to question #1: Could I
have accidentally loaded a whole group of available modules?
Question 2: Is it possible for me to list modules by the date that they
were installed? I'd especially like to know when the i2c-i801 module was
loaded.
Question 3 & 4: Lsmod currently lists about 67 modules loaded; is that
normal for a basic system? If not, then must I install the system all
over again to revert to a less-cluttered state?
Please cc me since I am not currently on the list.
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