On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 05:13 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 25 May 2008 02:57:47 pm Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
Dear List,
I had my wireless working OK few months ago in my hp tx1000 laptop. The wireless card in this pc is broadcom bcm4312.
.. now it suddenly stopped working (maybe because upgrading regularly with the updater applet?).
In yast => network devices => etc. => wireless => configure => hardware, the list of kernel modules does not offer anything (just a blank line) .. it used to offer ndiswrapper.
Have you tried to write in that line 'ndiswrapper'.
I suppose this might be because of the bcm43xx driver. Well, I have blaclisted it in several files.. ------------------- linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # grep -i "bcm" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist bcm43xx blacklist bcm43xx linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # grep -i "bcm" /etc/modprobe.conf.local blacklist bcm43xx --------------------- But when I.. ---------------------- linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # modprobe -l *bcm43* /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm4 3xx.ko linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # rmmod bcm43xx ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
The above means that bcm43xx is not loaded. Blacklisting device will not remove it from hard disk, it will not load it.
Here is my desktop result for 'modprobe -l *bcm43*' /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko where desktop is using completely different network adapter.
----------------------- Ndiswrapper also tells me that.. ------------------------ linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
Ndiswrapper tells you that you have alternative, not that it is loaded by kernel.
------------------------- Then I try.. -------------------------- linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # modprobe -r bcm43xx
The modprobe is not verbose. There was nothing to remove and it did nothing, silently.
linux-q5nk:/home/sampsa # modprobe -l *bcm43* /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm4 3xx.ko
And again it is listing where on hard disk you can find bcm43xx .
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. :/ 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.
See also: http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper
Thanks, I will read it carefully.. Regards, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org