Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2778 mails)

[Sampsa Riikonen <sampsa.riikonen@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 05:48 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2008 05:28:40 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
> > > Try
> > >   lsmod | grep bcm
> > > it should list you nothing, and 'lsmod' is looking only for modules that
> > > are actually loaded and used by kernel.
> >
> > Thank you and sorry for the confusion.. I always thought that modprobe
> > shows the _installed_ modules. :/
>
> Yes, 'modprobe' shows installed modules. They are installed on the hard disk. 
> Though, installed module has to be loaded from hard disk to memory (RAM) 
> before kernel can use it.  and that is what shows 'lsmod'. 
>
> The only confusion was words install vs. load . 
> I have feeling that 'modprobe' manual is using word 'install' for loading 
> module in memory. 
>
> > So it seems that the bcm43xx driver is not in use in my laptop.
> >
> > > > ---------------------------
> > > > So what the **ll I am supposed to do to get rid of this annoying
> > > > driver?!  And what should I do to get ndiswrapper back to the list of
> > > > available kernel modules in yast?  I am running suse 10.3, 32-bit
> > > > version.
> > >
> > > Write 'ndiswrapper' in YaST where usually goes module name and that
> > > should take care of problem.
> >
> > I type ndiswrapper in yast, but the next time I visit the same
> > "hardware" section, the line is empty.
>
> I had the same problem, but it was a year ago, so I'm not sure. 
> Try to load ndiswrapper with:
>   modprobe ndiswrapper
>
> check that is loaded with
>   lsmod
>
> than go to YaST. It should be listed now.   

Things just got a bit more annoying..

I have removed bcm43xx, but
----------------
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx               419676  0
ieee80211softmac       34432  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              35400  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
firmware_class         13568  2 bcm43xx,uvcvideo
----------------
So I remove it again..
---------------
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # rmmod bcm43xx
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa #
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # lsmod | grep bcm
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa #                       
-----------------
So it is gone.  Then I start yast => network devices
At this moment, I try again in a terminal..
-----------------
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx               419676  0
ieee80211softmac       34432  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              35400  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
firmware_class         13568  2 bcm43xx,uvcvideo
-------------------
And there it is again!  And keep in mind that it has been blacklisted.

So it seems that it is yast that insists in loading this kernel module.
How can I convince it not to do it?!?

Btw, now the bcm43xx shows in the kernel modules list (while ago it
didn't?) and ndiswrapper does not, althought it is loaded into the
kernel
-------------------
fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # lsmod | grep ndis
ndiswrapper           174328  0
usbcore               124268  6
ndiswrapper,uvcvideo,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
--------------------

Cheers,

Sampsa

> -- 
> Regards, Rajko
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.

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