[Leaplist] Latest Ubuntu version 8.10

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> Nice.  I have a broadcom on my Dell laptop.  A recent
> Ubuntu kernel update wanted to use a new broadcom kernel
> driver instead of ndiswrapper.  Big mistake.  Laptop hung
> within an hour.  Switched back to ndiswrapper and all is
> well again.
> These kernel WiFi drivers love to lockup, hard.

I think it's pretty universal to all distros, because it's
really more at the kernel level.

On Fedora, after newer kernels started shipping a newer,
differently named, native Broadcom driver, I had to blacklist
the kernel Broadcom driver so it wouldn't load before
NDISWrapper.  It was very simple to do though.


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