Removing ndiswrapper

[NoOp]

On 10/12/2010 09:09 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 21:19 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 10/11/2010 03:36 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> > 
>> > While trying to help someone to get a USB wireless adapter working, I
>> > gave ndiswrapper as try as in
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/internet/C/troubleshooting-wireless.html
>> > 
>> > It didn't do any good so I wanted to revert to the pre-ndiswrapper
>> > state.  
>> > 
>> > I removed ndisgtk and the packages that installed with it but noticed
>> > that the ndiswrapper module was still listed by lsmod and none of the
>> > original modules loaded with the USB wireless adapter.  
>> >
>> 
>> Try:
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get purge ndiswrapper-common
>> 
>> 
> 
> I have already removed it - that command just says 'Package
> ndiswrapper-common is not installed, so not removed'.

You may have "removed" it, but did you "purge" it? Purging removes the
config files as well. If you didn't purge, reinstall & then purge.