[PLUG] how to remove usb

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Wed Oct 1 09:23:02 UTC 2003


Mike De La Mater <mikedela at theplatinumrule.com> wrote:

> RH 7.1, I want usb support out. This server will never need it.
snip
> 
> I cannot find any package, man file or anything that has anything to
> do with these. It looks like I could remove all of the usb devices
> from /dev and the init script would not load it, but that seems crude.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

I'd guess that kudzu is looking for new hardware, and also that usb is all
done through modules.

Try putting this in your /etc/modules.conf
  alias usb-controller off

Note that I haven't done this myself, it's just my best guess.

galen




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