Broadcom wireless is driving me nuts!

[Keith Clark]

> > > As an update....I managed to find the correct .inf driver file and this is 
> now 
> > what I have to do upon booting up to get my wireless working really well under 
> 
> > ndiswrapper:
> > > 
> > > sudo modprobe -r b43
> > > sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
> > > sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
> > > 
> > > I just wait a few moments and I'm back up and running with a 54 Mb/s speed 
> > rating versus the 1 Mb/s under b43.  
> > > 
> > > How do I now make this a permanent change?
> > You need to blacklist the b43 module.  You should be able to do this
> > with a line in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist like
> > blacklist b43
> > 
> > Note: there is an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist as follows for
> > hardy:
> > # replaced by b43 and ssb.
> > blacklist bcm43xx
> > 
> > 
> > So it may pay to register a bug against the b43 driver for the limited
> > speed.
> > 
> > 
> > Tim


Nope, this solution does not work.  Now I have no wireless and when I try my old solution, as seen above, my system locks up solid and has to be power cycled.

Keith