Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:49:39
Message-Id: 470B7620.1020809@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper by Beso
1 Beso wrote:
2 > if you load at boot bcm43xx as hal should do, you have to unload them before
3 > using ndiswrapper. if you want to stop them from loading put:
4 >
5 > blacklist bcm43xx in this file:
6 > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
7 > and remember that you need also the firmware in /lib/firmware if you're
8 > using the bcm43xx modules.
9 >
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11 I don't have the bcm modules auto-loading at the moment, mainly so I can
12 test them, however, I ran ndiswrapper just fine with those modules
13 loaded (I loaded them manually). Not that that makes any difference to
14 the discussion, but it is more for your information that it can be done.
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16 Thanks again for all the help.
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