How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Desmond Rivet
Hi all, I've just installed Debian 3,1 on an old Pentium 200. This Pentium has a limited amount of memory and is only used for email and newsgroups in console mode (no X, no real desktop, no CD burner, etc.), so I'm trying to get rid of as much fluff as I can. Anyway, doing an lsmod, I notice

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't show up in lspci or /proc and the various autoloading packages like discover and hotplug won't load the drivers for

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Desmond Rivet
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:25PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't show up in lspci or /proc and the various

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 11/02/06, Desmond Rivet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:25PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it