[ltp] Scripts for wireless

[wes schreiner]

Bob Alexander wrote:

> Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:38:52PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to get some good scripts to associate with Fn+Fn7 to 
>>> activate/deactivate and also a suggestion on how is the most clean 
>>> way to avoid automatic activation at boot time (Debian sid).
>>
>>
>>
>> Place the modules you don't want to be automatically loaded when the
>> hardware is detected in the file /etc/hotplug/blacklist.
>>
>>                         - Ted
>
>
> Nope Ted,
> in Debian it does not work ...


It sure does Bob, but you are barking up the wrong tree.

>
>
> Sun Jan 30 10:56:25 2005: Detecting hardware: yenta_socket e1000 
> ath_pci piix i810_audio usb_uhci ehci_hcd

> Sun Jan 30 10:56:26 2005: Loading yenta_socket module.
> Sun Jan 30 10:56:27 2005: Loading e1000 module.
> Sun Jan 30 10:56:28 2005: Loading ath_pci module.



Your system is running discover-modprobe, and that is what is loading 
ath_pci.  By the time hotplug runs ath_pci is already loaded, as it 
faithfully reports.

>
> even though /etc/hotplug/blacklist contains:
> # do not want wifi on by default but only via Fn+F5
> ath_pci
>
> and this is also confirmed by the following messages during boot in 
> which you will see an ath_pci already loaded:


What you want is a line that says

skip="ath_pci"

in /etc/discover-modprobe.conf and then ath_pci won't get loaded on boot.

wes