how do I blacklist USB 2.0 driver? solved

[fudda]

Hi,

I have the following problem:

When USB 2.0 is enabled on my mainboard Elyssa wont boot. Hangs up on BusyBox. Though I have figured out that when I uninstall USB host controllers from Windows, (I have a dual boot) Elyssa boots just perfectly right until I load Windows XP for the next time and install (automatically) all the USB host controllers again. After that Elyssa wont boot again. So here's my thought/question:

Cant I just blacklist the USB 2.0 driver from Elyssa so it wont load at boot but after the OS is fully loaded? Kind of like I had to do with the Broadcom WLAN driverson my notebook? If this is possible then please help me findout how.

But if you know a better work around or yet even a solution for this problem, please let me know.

Thank you all in advance for any type of help.

fudda

[Husse]

This is far from ideal
To blacklist USB - and this is all USB!

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echo "blacklist usbcore" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist 

Then when you have booted restore USB

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sudo modprobe usbcore 

Hopefully this loads ohci_hcd and ehci_hcd as well
If you experience problems modprobe these too
No guarantees given...
This is perhaps possible to script and make automatic, but first we must know if it works at all

[fudda]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

No it actually didnt work. After digging deeper for the error I found out that it was the:

IRQ 19 : nobody cared issue

Obviously USB 2.0 and my Harddrive were assigned same IRQ because it did either boot with USB onboard disabled from HDD or with my harddrive unplugged from Live CD.

Tried irqpoll like it told me too. That did only work after I disabled the "assign IRQ to USB" option in my BIOS. -.-

Now it boots and everything seems to be working fine. Although I have read on several forums that irqpoll would slow down the machine and network performance.

Is there another way to fix this besides booting with irqpoll option?

[Husse]

after I disabled the "assign IRQ to USB" option in my BIOS.

Maybe you don't need irqpoll now?
But it's no big problem to use irqpoll

[fudda]

I had that thought too that maybe I wouldnt need irqpoll then, but I need it although I turned that option off. Weird... :/

But if you say that booting with irqpoll isnt a problem you have taken my worries

Thank you for your help.