Preventing modules from getting loaded

[Jonathan Hudson]

Mario Mure wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2004, 20:15, Arjen Wiersma <arjenw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The list of modules loaded at boot time is quite large, for instance
>>ipv6... anyone know of a way to prevent them from being loaded without
>>having to recompile the kernel?
> 
> 
> modconf
> man modconf(8)
> 

Ubuntu is 2.6 based, and uses modprobe.

man modprobe may be more appropriate