disabling modules at boot time

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:56 PM +1000 5/12/07, David Timms wrote:
>Wade Hampton wrote:
>> Good idea except when the original modprobe could cause a lockup of
>> the box....  I was hoping there was a clean way of preventing a module
>> from loading at startup via modprobe but then later being able to
>> modprobe the module.
>
>After some list/bugzilla problems with trying to disable loading ipv6 on
>my machines, various mentioned the correct way would be:
>
>in /etc/modprobe.conf:
>install wct4xxp /sbin/true
>install zaptel /sbin/true
>
>I think this essentially informs the module loader that if it is asked
>to install the particular module, that it should return true {success},
>but not actually do anything.
>
>If you want to load it later, the same conf would be blocking the load ;(

Maybe modprobe -i would work, or insmod which claims to be stupider than
modprobe.
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