Jerry Geis wrote: ... > Thanks I was aware of those. however I was looking for a method on the > kernel > boot line (as in I am installing and I dont want the network driver to > load). > > I can accomplish this with noprobe but then everything is gone. > There are individual items like nousb nopcmcia and I was looking and > have not found > one for nonetwork. Closest kernel boot parameter seems to be the netdev= option. Could perhaps use it with the dummy.ko device - don't know the details of how that would work. See: /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-*/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-*/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt Phil