On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Plug, > I'm working with moblin which is fedora/ubuntu like so I figure this might > be the best place to ask. I have an atheros chipset which is causing the > system to lock up, it's reproduceable with a few moves in the moblin UI. I > have an alternate kernel module I have built and it will run on the system, > however the ath5k/ath9k drivers are built in to the kernel and are being > used by the system. Rolling my own kernel is an option but I'd rather try > and avoid it right now. What is the fedora/ubuntu way of forcing the system > to use a module instead of whats built in to the kernel for driver support > for a given piece of hardware? I've tried aliasing the network interface in > modprobe.conf but not getting any joy with it. Google so far has failed me. >
I have done 1/2 of what you want, but it has been a while, so I'l giveyou what I can verify today: $ ls /etc/modprobe.d/ blacklist-ath_pci.conf blacklist-firewire.conf blacklist-watchdog.conf blacklist.conf blacklist-framebuffer.conf That is the area you want to mess with to prevent the 'bad' module from loading. how you get yours to load is a different problem. /etc/modules still works, but I think there is a 'new way' (like putting a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ that is dedicated to your issue, makes updates easer) -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
