How to blacklist a PCI device so a system can boot?

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Published on 2011-06-12T08:57:43Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 16:31 UTC
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I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on someone's computer which it had a 'Connexant Fusion 878A' PCI card installed, the card is problematic, I had to unplug it just to use the Live CD.

Now my question is how to know which module to blacklist, so he can use the card in Windows and override it when he boots into Ubuntu.

There's a twist, I can't plug it and lsmod it because it won't let the system boot up even in 'Recovery Mode'.

Kernel: 2.6.35-22

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