[Solved] module-init-tools -> kmod : how to disable ipv6

karol · 2012-01-21 18:41:28

I figured it out. My point is 'kmod --help' doesn't tell you that.

Edit: Instead of

Options:
	-V, --version     show version
	-h, --help        show this help

I'd prefer

Options:
	-V, --version     show version and exit
	-h, --help        show this help and exit

so I know why

[karol@black ~]$ kmod -V list
kmod version 4

behaves this way.

I think we should end this discussion or at least move it some else. As it seems you're much more familiar with kmod than I am, I'd be grateful if you could point me to their bugtracker / some place where I can submit feature requests.

Last edited by karol (2012-01-21 18:59:51)

Amancio · 2012-01-23 10:51:40

Sorry for my '+1', but I had thought it was clear the reason for an announcement. I know what a .pacsave is, but I didn't know how to configure the "new" kmod, where I should put (or find) the new config files, the syntax, etc. A 'man modprobe' didn't help, because it was still referring the old modprobe.conf (I felt like the 'man' hadn't been updated).

By the way, thanks for the posted message - http://www.archlinux.org/news/kmod-repl … nit-tools/ .

karol · 2012-01-23 10:57:00

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22330.html

In general, and regardless of kmod, packages should install their
config files in /lib/modprobe.d, and leave /etc/modprobe.d to admins.
This works (in module-init-tools, as well as in kmod) in the same way
as with udev's rule files. If a file foo.conf exists in both /etc and
in /lib, the version in /etc is used and the one in /lib is ignored.
This means the admin can easily override the standard config files
supplied by the packages, and the package updating the config file
does not create .pacnew/.pacsave files.

Edit: You can keep the config in the same place: /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

Last edited by karol (2012-01-23 10:58:09)

atercor · 2012-02-15 06:09:37

I think that if someone knows that this change could make appear some issues in wireless connection (that was my case, and I've installed arch 3 days ago, so didn't went very smooth to me) they should make some type of announcement. I'm trying to make a clean install and see if the wifi problem is corrected without ipv6 (the connection speed is realy slow and sometimes is stoped AFTER upgrade from the .iso)

Last edited by atercor (2012-02-15 06:12:39)

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#26 2012-01-21 18:41:28

Re: [Solved] module-init-tools -> kmod : how to disable ipv6

#27 2012-01-23 10:51:40

Re: [Solved] module-init-tools -> kmod : how to disable ipv6

#28 2012-01-23 10:57:00

Re: [Solved] module-init-tools -> kmod : how to disable ipv6

#29 2012-02-15 06:09:37

Re: [Solved] module-init-tools -> kmod : how to disable ipv6

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