On Monday 04 April 2005 18:38, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Why is the system still installing this driver? How can I "tell" the kernel not to bother looking for this bit of hardware? Is this indicative of something wrong with my system?
You neglected to mention which version of suse you are running, but I'm going to assume it's one with a 2.6 kernel, in which case you can force the kernel to ignore the module by inserting the line install via82xx /bin/true in /etc/modprobe.conf.local and running depmod I know that linguistically it looks backwards, but this will disable the loading. Aside from that, you can have a look in /etc/sysconfig/hardware, there should be a file there that loads the module. If you delete that file, it should also disable it, but the above will guarantee it