On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:24:46PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 21 July 2008 13:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,21.Jul.08, 03:55:20, Dominik Dera wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You > > > > at least need to run update-initramfs and you would probably be > > > > advised to unpack one to make *sure* it's not in there... > > > > > > This problem can be solved by removing 8139cp module, and afterwards > > > updating initramfs. So it goes like this: > > > > > > rmmod -v 8139cp > > > update-initramfs -uv > > > > This will not survive a linux-image update. > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > Personally, I've never found any problems with both modules being loaded. > I've > had to add 8139too to /etc/modules, and both are loaded, and I think the > bootup messages complain about 8139cp, and then goes on to say "using > 8139too". > > If the blacklisting won't work, I've had success with loading the unwanted > module to /bin/true, where it's loaded into nowhere land. Add a line to a > file in /etc/modprobe.d. I don't know if it matters which file you add it to, > and I put it, in the case of "pcspkr" in the alsa-base file. See below. > > install 8139cp /bin/true
make a "local" file in modprobe.d so that updates to those files won't bork your custom stuff. A
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