Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:22:26 -0600 From: "sfp" <mosfet@planet.eon.net> To: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: disable kernel driver at boot? Message-ID: <002a01c67969$8108c380$6f3010ac@ephialtes> References: <200605161242.k4GCgmS8006842@lurza.secnetix.de>
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From: "Oliver Fromme" <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> > sfp <mosfet@planet.eon.net> wrote: > > Is it possible to disable a driver compiled into a 4.10 kernel at > > boot time by feeding a (set?) command to the loader? > > > > In this case I want to turf the EM(4) driver that was compiled into > > the kernel I've inherited and substitute it with a new if_em.ko using > > kldload. > > That's not possible. You might disable a driver through > loader variables (or kernel hints, or whatever), but the > driver will still be present in the kernel image, so you > cannot load a module that uses the same symbols. I may have answered my own question. Compiled em-4.1.6, replaced if_em.ko & loaded it from /boot/loader.conf. The reason I need this is 4.10 enumerates the Pro/1000 GT (PWLA8391GT, 82541PI chipset) as unknown. Need a newer driver to support the hardware. I'd still like to find a way to suppress the driver in the kernel entirely though :P Thanks for the info! > > You will have to compile a kernel that does not include > the driver. > > > I don't have the option of recompiling the kernel to exclude EM(4). > > Too bad. (Why don't you have that option?) > > Best regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing > Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author > and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. > > With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over > networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, > and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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