Ubuntu modules

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Just a followup since I don't know Ubuntu and I'm heling someone remotely.

The problem is that he has a broadcom wireless. He installed ndiswrapper and 
the Windows driver successfully, BUT upon boot, Ubuntu tries to load the 
bcm43xx kernel module before it loads the ndiswrapper kernel module 
requiring the user to rmmod bcm43xx. 

Normally, I would simply comment out the line in /etc/modprobe.conf, but 
there is no modprobe.conf file on his system. Further, he certainlay has a 
modprobe.d directory containing ndiswrapper, and ndiswrapper does get 
loaded. When we unload bcm43xx (with rmmod or modprobe -r) then his 
wireless works fine. 

My hack was to simply go into /lib/modules/<kernel>/... and rename the 
bcm43xx.ko so it can't load, but that is not a good hack. I'm sure if I had 
an ubuntu (dapper) system or a 2.6 kernel debian available I could easily 
figure it out, but I have neither available to look at.
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