Module overrides in dapper.

Trent Lloyd trentl at hostaway.net.au
Fri Feb 17 05:28:29 GMT 2006


On Friday 17 February 2006 12:58, Scott Robinson wrote:
> What is the proper process to go about overriding modules in dapper?
>
> The included bcm43xx driver is likely to remain broken due to UVF, so I
> would like ndiswrapper to override it. Taking a look at rcS, I see the
> module handling order as:

bcm43xx is not 'broken' I have heard mixed reports of it working and not 
working

The question is, can we ship the broadcom drivers with ndiswrapper? If not 
making ndiswrapper preferred really doesn't get us anywhere, unless you mean 
that once you install a driver for ndiswrapper, it would then prefer that?

Cheers,
Trent
HostAway

>
> linux-restricted-modules
> 	Handles linking in modules like nvidia and ltmodem.
>
> udev
> 	Normal driver loading.
>
> module-init-tools
> 	Manual driver loading.
>
> None of which seems to offer blacklisting services. Suggestions?
>
> Scott.

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