I don’t want that NIC to be probed
January 20th, 2009 | by RoarinPenguin |Suppose you are on a Linux box with multiple NICs.
It happens that there is one of them that loads with a driver disturbing test/activity you’re doing and you want to exclude it from modprobe.
You should edit file /etc/modprobe/blacklist and add there the driver name used by the card you want to get rid of, as follows:
/etc/modprobe.conf
[snip]
blacklist 8139cp
blacklist 8139too
[snip]
The example above (no, you don’t have to add snips, it is just to show that this is part of a bigger file…) will avoid Linux to probe for Realtek based NICs.
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