On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008 13:18, Robert P. J. Day escribió: > > > > that would be *my* first thought -- prevent loading of the > > "usb-storage" module. > > Yep, I think that would be easier than going into the BIOS and all > that tough stuff that someone pointed out in the thread. > > Although, maybe "our" solution wouldn't fit for the original poster, > we'll see.. i would have thought that trying to do this in the BIOS would be difficult since he doesn't want to disable USB *entirely*, only for certain devices. and i can't think of a simpler way than blacklisting modules or configuring a kernel without usb-storage support. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================