[PLUG] how to remove usb

Grigsby, Garl garl.grigsby at plms-eds.com
Wed Oct 1 10:51:01 UTC 2003


Why not just disable USB in the system BIOS. Then the system won't try to load the module for USB. I do the same thing for IDE controllers and it seems to work fine.

Garl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AthlonRob [mailto:AthlonRob at axpr.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] how to remove usb
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:46, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> > 9/30/03 11:35:17 PM, AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >Recompile your kernel without USB support, 
> > 
> > I hope to never (never say never) compile a kernel. Isn't 
> there an easier way?
> > 
> > Hotplug is not installed.
> 
> If I were setting up a server, the first thing I would do would be to
> recompile my kernel for the hardware it was made up from, and 
> only that
> hardware.
> 
> Why don't you want to recompile your kernel?  :-)
> 
> As somebody else suggested, USB might be (is probably?) being 
> loaded up
> as a module.  Do an lsmod to see if that's the case, then use RH's
> module setup to disable those modules from automatically loading.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
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