modprobe.conf Syntax

[Matthew Carpenter]

You might try /etc/hotplug/blacklist.  I have some Compaq servers (ancient) 
which don't like Linux's USB stack, even though they couldn't spell USB back 
then.

A nice entry in /etc/hotplug/blacklist solved it.  This is for Ubuntu.



On Thursday 05 January 2006 00:24, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:56:01PM -0800, Net Llama! took 0 lines to write:
> > On 01/04/2006 10:25 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > >After reading man 5 modprobe.conf, I'm not terribly enlightened.
> > >Can I still say
> > >
> > >alias ehci-hcd off
> > >
> > >to disable loading the ehci-hcd module?
> >
> > yes
>
> Eh, maybe not. With that specific syntax, I got an error that
> modprobe couldn't find module "off". This didn't work either:
>
> alias off ehci-hcd
>
> Darned odd, because the man page says:
>
> alias wildcard modulename
>
>        This allows you to give alternate names for a module. For exam-
>        ple: "alias my-mod really_long_modulename" means you can use
>        "modprobe my-mod" instead of "modprobe really_long_modulename".
>
> Go figure. I worked around it by not building the ehci_hcd module.
>
> Kurt