Where do I configure modules?

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Sat Nov 29 12:43:05 UTC 2003


Ben Steeves wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 21:49, Brian G. Vallelunga wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm not sure what this means. The floppy.o is not listed in the
>>modules.conf file. The only items in that file are:
>>
>>alias eth- e1--
>>alias eth1 orinoco_cs
>>alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>>
>>Can you tell me where the list of modules to be loaded are located? I
>>can't seem to find this on the internet anywhere.
>>    
>>
>
>Modules are loaded on demand by the kernel.  You only need to put
>configuration for modules in modules.conf if they need it.
>
>In your case I believe you were trying to prevent a module from being
>loaded.  This can usually be accomplished by putting the name of the
>module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist .
>  
>
Looking at "man modules.conf" we find:
alias some_module off
 
              will make modprobe ignore requests to load that module.

So presumably if you put
alias floppy off
in /etc/modules.conf it will do what you want.  I would test that first.

Chris

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