blacklist

[yazdzik]

Dear friends,

I need to blacklist bcm44xx to prevent it from loading ever under any circumstances.

Running a fresh debian isntall.

Best,
M

[bluesdog]

I've never had much luck with blacklisting drivers. Some say it's possible, but I just can't seem to make it work if the module in question is loaded by the kernel.

If you are using hotplug, adding the module name to /etc/hotplug/blacklist may work, but this procedure failed for me:

For example, the 'evbug' module kept loading itself, despite adding it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist, and although I could remove it using modprobe -r evbug or rmod evbug as root, it loaded again next boot.

Ultimately, I resolved this by re-compiling the kernel, and de-selecting the evbug module from the .config.

Prior to that, I killed the thing by renaming /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/kernel/drivers/input/evbug.ko, to /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/kernel/drivers/input/evbug.off

When the system booted, it could not locate the driver, so 'failed' to load the module. A 'hack-ish' method, but it worked without impacting the rest of the system :biggrin:

hope that helps

[bhobjj]

Try adding it to:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

[bluesdog]

Try adding it to:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklistThat may, indeed, work, so it's worth a try. Although, iirc, it did not work for that damn evbug module :/

I think I tried both 'blacklist' strategies as suggested in various fora

Let us know what works:)