[ltp] A30p: How to disable hardware interfaces

[Matthias Posseldt]

Hello all,

I have a new A30p which runs Linux perfectly (only modem isn't supported). 
Under Windows 2000 I can easily disable the hardware interfaces like 
serial port, parallel port or IrDA. At least IrDA uses energy, don't know 
whether serial/parallel use energy too if not used?

So I want to disable them under Linux too, but tpctl fails because it 
cannot modprobe the superio.o module. It seems that the A30p doesn't use 
such a superio chipset any longer. So is there a different way? Or is it 
disabled as long as I don't insert a parport or serial module?

Ciao, Matthias