Preventing modules from getting loaded

Rob Weir rweir at ertius.org
Sat Oct 30 23:21:59 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:50:28PM +0100, Jonathan Hudson said
> Mario Mure wrote:
> >On 30 Oct 2004, 20:17, Jonathan Hudson <jh+ubuntu at daria.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>modconf
> >>>man modconf(8)
> >>>
> >>
> >>Ubuntu is 2.6 based, and uses modprobe.
> >>
> >>man modprobe may be more appropriate
> >
> >
> >Huh? AFAIK modconf (>= 0.2.47) works correctly with kernels 2.6.x
> >series.
> >
> Strange ...
> 
> $ man modconf
> No manual entry for modconf

modconf is in universe and "should" work with 2.6 kernels, though it is
buggy in other ways.  I don't think it will actually let you ban a
module from the kernel.

-rob

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