On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> 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 >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > Carl, > Thanks, at least I know I'm messing around in the right area. The problem > is, the driver being used is built in and not modular
Are you sure? that seems very odd for ubuntu, and I am pretty sure it was the ath5k module that I blacklisted. this was about 1.5 years ago, so 3 ubuntus ago... -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
