[gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

[Remy Blank]

(Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and
it hasn't appeared on the list yet)

marco restelli wrote:
> Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> I have been using ndiswrapper.

I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by udev as follows:

Find out the module alias used by udev:

  cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias

(Replace wlan0 by the name of your interface). Here this gives:

  pci:v000014E4d00004324sv00001028sd00000003bc02sc80i00

Create the file /etc/modules.d/blacklist with the following content:

  alias pci:v000014E4d00004324sv00001028sd00000003bc02sc80i00 off

(Use the alias you got with the command above). Then run modules-update.

Easy, isn't it? ;-)

-- Remy