--- On Mon, 6/28/10, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: How do I recover from modprobe mistakes? > To: "postid" <pos...@att.net> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 6:03 PM > On Lu, 28 iun 10, 11:06:14, postid > wrote: > > 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? > > And what if? > > > 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. > > Installed in the system or loaded into the kernel? > > > Question 3 & 4: Lsmod currently lists about 67 > modules loaded; is > > that normal for a basic system? > > $ lsmod | wc -l > 117 > > > > > If not, then must I install the > > system all over again to revert to a less-cluttered > state? > > Did you try rebooting? ;) > Explanation: modules loaded only "by hand" with modprobe > will not > persist after a reboot. That's a relief. It reminds me once again that Linux is safe enough for idiots like me. So to permanently insert a module, I'd use insmod, right? Is there any way of telling when a module was permanently loaded using insmod? > > > Please cc me since I am not currently on the list. > > Done. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > Thanks. Now I can go back to panicing over a potentially damaged eeprom. Postid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/873376.91790...@web180311.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
