Comments on: Howto: Prevent a Linux kernel module from auto loading

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:46:14 +0000

alias driver-name off does nto work on CentOS 5.5

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:22:57 +0000

On Suse is like fedora 15:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist driver-name

By: 0xA00A

0xA00A — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:35:05 +0000

on fedora 15 you do:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist driver-name

By: Dhananjay

Dhananjay — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:19:59 +0000

Thanks a lot.

By: Ravi J

Ravi J — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:53:17 +0000

I am unable to stop kvm, kvm_intel from getting loaded even after adding those to blacklist (Ubuntu 9.10).

By: MotoHoss

MotoHoss — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:57:40 +0000

The debian way? An update has been written and is available here : http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting

By: Prakash

Prakash — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:57:37 +0000

the method is if nothing works in debian based distros to blacklist a certain module,try making a file /etc/modprobe.d/00local with content as
install modulename /bin/true

By: vivek

vivek — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:34:58 +0000

You need to add following drivers
usbcore
ehci_hcd
uhci_hcd

lsmod and modinfo command always gives information about loaded drivers.

By: Erik Bussink

Erik Bussink — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:04:03 +0000

On a similar path, how would you go about disabling USB without having to add nousb on the kernel settings line in GRUB ?

By: Béranger

Béranger — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:30:07 +0000

Blacklisting in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist works in F7 too, not only in Debian!