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
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