diff --git a/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh b/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
index bb14459..1f13c39 100755
--- a/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
+++ b/userspace/compile-modemmanager.sh
@@ -55,3 +55,9 @@ meson setup build \
 
 ninja -C build
 ninja -C build install
+
+# remove plugins we don't use, makes probing faster
+mkdir -p /tmp/mm-plugins
+mv /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/libmm-*.so /tmp/mm-plugins
+cp /tmp/mm-plugins/*generic* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/
+cp /tmp/mm-plugins/*quectel* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ModemManager/