Ubuntu modules

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 1:40 pm, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> I would go into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist anything in there "shouldn't"
> be loaded at boot.
>
> since the bcm43xx modules attempting to load at boot, I assume we're
> talking about the 6.06 (dapper) release. in which case, you can use the
> bcm43xx module, you just need the firmware (aka, the same windows driver
> files that ndiswrapper needs, sigh). you can either compile, or find a
> copy of fwcutter (also called bcm43xx-fwcutter, or something of the
> like) you use this to extract the firmware file from teh windows .sys
> file. They then go in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/
>
> the bcm43xx modules are getting better. ndiswrapper is...okay. i
> honestly flip back and forth on my dell laptop and can't decide which is
> more stable. as for my powerbook, bcm43xx is the only way to go, and it
> works fairly well.
Thanks. Unfortunately, trying to explain this over the phone is very 
difficult. He's got ndiswrapper running, so I don't want to rock the boat 
at the moment. But I will file that away for the future. 
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