[PLUG] how to remove usb

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Wed Oct 1 11:25:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:49, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
> 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.
> 
This has a pretty good chance of not working, once linux is booted, it
doesn't care what the BIOS settings are, it still looks for the devices
and gets them working if it can.  I've had IDE devices do this too
(turned off in the BIOS, but found as the kernel boots up).

Derek Loree






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