DOCUMENT ID: 1501-02

SYNOPSIS:    How to disable a specific device from probing at boot time

OS RELEASE:  Solaris x86 2.4

PRODUCT:     

KEYWORDS:    probing device boot 


SYMPTOMS:

Upon booting, your system might hang on a particular device driver
probing, and you don't have the device on your system. 


DESCRIPTION:

Your system might be hanging due to the some kind of device conflict. 

You might try to exclude the probing for that particular device driver
to see if the problem will go away.  If you don't have the problem
device on your system, it does not need to be probed anyway. 


SOLUTION:

Let's assume the name of the device is pe3 (Pocket Ethernet Xircom
Adapter). 

Edit the /etc/system and add the following line after the "* exclude: "
section:

exclude: pe3


DATE APPROVED: 09/05/95