bcm43xx wireless module Breaks Ndiswrapper

[mikeycal]

I noticed that Dapper tries to load the BCM43xx module even if you don't have compatible firmware. This is kind of annoying because you have to:

rmmod bcm43xx
rmmod ieee80211softmac

if you want to use ndiswrapper instead of the BCM43xx module. I would switch to the BCM43xx module but I can't seem to get compable firmware from my windows driver to use BCM43xx

[luke1011]

Re: bcm43xx wireless module Breaks Ndiswrapper

i decided just to stick with ndiswrapper so i blacklisted the bcm43xx driver in
my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.
add the following line to that file
blacklist bcm43xx
that way you don't have to do the rmmod thing every time

more info here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Dri...e118882caf3bae

[mikeycal]

Re: bcm43xx wireless module Breaks Ndiswrapper

Thanks -- I didn't even know there was a module blacklist --cool.