Apropos;
You offered the following:
> The following instructions tell you how to download and setup
> ndiswrapper from scratch. Make sure that the package that
> comes with Mandrake 10 is NOT installed. If it is, go to
> "configure your computer", "software management" and remove
> it. While you are in there, make sure that teh "wireless
> tools" are installed.
OK, I admit, though I've read various threads and instructions for the last week, I have no idea how to remove the package that comes with mdk10.1. I also fully and freely admit to being a Linux novice. According to the "distributions" info for ndiswrapper:
> Mandrake 10.1 have build in the ACX100/111 Sourceforge
> project driver as a kernel module, you will need to remove
> this before install the ndiswrapper
I have had a few suggestions on how to remove the module, but none seem to do the job. I tried rmmod while waiting for suggestions, which seemed to work (until the next boot). I installed ndiswrapper per instructions, and got as far as it reporting the networks available, but that's as far as I've gotten, and of course, at the next boot, it's gone, mdk has put the ACX100_PCI module back in.
I thought one of the reasons for having modules was to be able to choose them or not, so something that wasn't always needed wasn't loaded at every boot, or am I having a blond hair day?
Short of recompiling the kernel (which I will try, but am hesitant to), is there a way to make mdk10.1 NOT load a "default" module?
