Removing ndiswrapper

[Tony Pursell]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 10:16 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

OK. I have re-installed ndisgtk, the 'purged' it, then 'purged'
ndiwrapper-common, then re-booted.  But when I remove and re-insert the
USB wireless adapter, I get the following syslog messages

Oct 12 21:58:00 osiris kernel: [  494.006015] usb 1-7: USB disconnect,
address 5
Oct 12 21:58:05 osiris kernel: [  498.368050] usb 1-7: new high speed
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Oct 12 21:58:05 osiris kernel: [  498.518386] usb 1-7: configuration #1
chosen from 1 choice
Oct 12 21:58:05 osiris kernel: [  498.570974] Disabling lock debugging
due to kernel taint
Oct 12 21:58:05 osiris kernel: [  498.580555] ndiswrapper version 1.55
loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Oct 12 21:58:05 osiris kernel: [  498.583130] usbcore: registered new
interface driver ndiswrapper

So it is still loading the ndiwrapper module!

Any ideas?

Tony