disabling modules at boot time

[Phil Meyer]

Wade Hampton wrote:
> On my x86 Fedora Core 4 box, I am trying to disable the wct4xxp and
> zaptel drivers from starting at boot time and have removed them from
> the modprobe.conf and removed the zaptel file from modprobe.d, yet
> they STILL get loaded when I boot.  If I add "alias wct4xxp off" to
> the modprobe.conf file, I can't modprobe them later.  Also, I added
> them to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat and they are still
> loaded.
>
> How can I disable them (so I can manually load them if I want)?  Is
> there a hidden modprobe option?
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Wade Hampton
>

Isn't /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat just an example file?
I think you need to put them in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist for them to be 
blacklisted.