Re: stopping modem manager

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:42:58PM +0100, Rune Gellein wrote:
> Hi,
> I just upgraded from Network manager 0.7.2 to 0.8.1 and I noticed it now
> automatically starts the modem manager.
> 
> I am using wireless lan (using ndiswrapper).  So I don't need the modem manager
> which also seem to load lots of modem specific plugins into memory.
> 
> Is it anyway to stop Network Manager from loading modem manager on startup? If
> not, any plans to add this?

For ubuntu my answer would be to remove the modemmanager package
... that would do the trick.

 - Alexander