Re: stopping modem manager

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Monday 23 of August 2010 18:31:57 Rune Gellein wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to just kill the modem manager, but Network manager started it
> again, so if you remove it, network manager will continue to try to start
> it in the background.
> And because of these dependencies, when you update the system again, the
> modem manager will be pulled back in (at least in gentoo).
> 
> So what I am looking for is a setting in the Network manager configuration
> to stop it from loading the modem manager at all.
> 
> Anything like that available?
> 
> Rune
> 

modem-manager is implemented as a D-Bus service and it's autostarted by D-Bus 
when a call is made on it. NetworkManager pokes it every 2 minutes and thus 
restarts it.

You can disable modem-manager by removing D-Bus service file  
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ModemManager.service

Jirka