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   Peter Weilbacher to David W Noon   
   Re: How to _not_ load ipw2200 on startup   
   09 Nov 07 18:20:07   
   
   From: newsspam@weilbacher.org   
      
   On 26.10.2007 21:47, David W Noon wrote:   
      
   > On Friday 26 Oct 2007 11:21 in article   
   > <4721BFBE.1030508@gaston.Weilbacher.org> of alt.os.linux.gentoo, Peter   
   > Weilbacher(newsspam@weilbacher.org) wrote:   
   >   
   >> radio should stay off until I tell it to come up. I already   
   >> managed to find out that I should add RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.wlan"   
   >> to /etc/conf.d/rc to keep udev-postmount from trying to initalize   
   >   
   > AFAIAA, the options in /etc/conf.d/rc are for init, not udev. As a   
   > result, I would suspect the postmount modprobes from udev to be the   
   > culprit in this case.   
   >   
   > Take a look at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the unwanted driver.   
      
   Thanks for the hint. Took until now to actually try it out.   
   Unfortunately, it didn't help. ipw2200 is still loaded after   
   startup.   
      
      Peter.   
      
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