modules not loading at boot-time

[jackoneill87]

I've recently been having a lot of trouble trying to install a ralink 3062 driver on my ubuntu 11.04 desktop. There are quite a few excellent tutorials on this website.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...o_threadsearch

In my case, however, adding the conflicting drivers to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf didn't prevent them being loaded at boot-time, so I could not make the change permanent. I eventually found a workaround online which I thought I'd share here. Once you have updated your blacklist and module list, use

sudo update-initramfs -u

I'm a beginner so I'm not sure, but I think the problem is that initramfs loads the conflicting modules into memory before the system comes to reading the blacklist and module files. Once you've done this, restart your system and you shouldn't have any further problems.

P.s. As far as I know this only works (but should only be a problem for kernel 2.6 and later)

Hope it helps!

[northd_tech]

Let's take a look at the output from the following terminal commands:

lsmod
cat /etc/modules

[jackoneill87]

Oh, I'm sorry. I'd managed to fix the problem already, it just took me quite a while to eventually find the answer (on a different forum) so I thought I'd post it here to help anybody was having similar problems. Thank you for your quick reply though, here's the output if you're interested. Maybe the problem wasn't what I thought it was.

lsmod

lp
rtc
rt2860sta
rt3562sta.ko

cat etc/modules

Module Size Used by
rt3562sta 986681 1
nls_utf8 12557 1
isofs 40283 1
vesafb 13761 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28167 4
binfmt_misc 17565 1
snd_usb_audio 112426 1
snd_usbmidi_lib 25139 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_codec_realtek 336771 1
snd_hda_intel 33176 2
snd_hda_codec 103804 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_i ntel
snd_hwdep 13604 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 96391 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd _hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30486 2 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
ppdev 17113 0
nvidia 10709116 38
snd_seq 61621 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29602 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14462 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
parport_pc 36959 1
snd 67382 18 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,s nd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,s nd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd _seq_device
uvcvideo 72195 0
videodev 82052 1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17078 1 videodev
soundcore 12680 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17825 0
parport 46458 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usbhid 46956 0
hid 91020 1 usbhid
r8168 194904 0

Before using the update r8169 (the default realtek ethernet driver) was being loaded but neither rt3562sta (wireless) nor r8168 (the correct ethernet driver) were.