On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:09:25PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, T. Ribbrock wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote: > > [...] > > > The issue here is that this is a notebook (an IBM Thinlpad) and it doesn't > > > *have* a floppy drive! In fact I havent owned a notebook with one in > > > almost 7 years! > > > > Wild guess: Does that laptop have the *option* to add a floppy (e.g. as a > > module)? If so, maybe there are some settings in the BIOS to switch off > > any floppy related stuff - just an idea. > > Did that - BIOS is set to show the absence of a floppy drive. Despite > this, I get these error messages. > > I remember vaguely that the modules system has an option to "blacklist" a > module to stop it from even trying to load, but if I recall correctly that > is only for usb hotplug stuff. I have used that functionality to stop the > dc2xx camera driver from loading, but it doesnt seem to work for floppy. In the modules.conf world you can turn off module loading by doing: alias floppy off However, a lot of modules.conf functionality is still lacking in modprobe.conf so I'm unsure if this would work in modprobe.conf. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
