[Xastir] USB on Linux for TNC

Alan Crosswell alan at columbia.edu
Wed Jun 11 16:56:33 EDT 2003


su
# /sbin/rmmod ...

Rich Garcia wrote:
> rmmod does not appear to be a valid command in RH9. I have searched my
> RH9 for Dummies book (the big one, not appended) and I don't see
> anything about removing modules except if I re-compile the Kernel. 
> 
> That is a bit of a task for a newbie but I may very well do that
> sometime soon and delete some of the un-necessary stuff that is taking
> up resources and probably slowing me down. 
> 
> I looked at the file in the kernel library and there are several USB
> modules in there. I'll need to re-boot and see exactly what is what. I
> don't want to change the name of the incorrect USB module. I think it is
> the HID module but I am not sure if HID is JUST for the keyboard and
> mouse or other things. I do not see anything that states keyboard or
> mouse.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:14, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:34:25PM -0400, Rich Garcia wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a Easy way to shut off the Mouse and Keyboard USB support
>>>without rebuilding the kernel ? I don't need it, it would be faster on
>>>startup, less resources used and also possibly less of a chance of
>>>conflicts that I am apparently receiving with the keyboard/mouse. 
>>
>>Try 'rmmod usbkbd ; rmmod usbmouse'.
>>
>>If they are included as modules (which is the case in the stock Debian
>>kernels I use), rmmod will shut them off.  If that works, you can
>>reconfigure whatever is used to load modules initially to remove those
>>references.
>>
>>Bob, N7XY
>>
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