Uninstalling drivers
 

Hi. I have installed 9.3 on my Acer Aspire 1355LCI laptop. In the course of trying to get my Realtek 8180L wireless card to work, I installed the wrong drivers- at least drivers that won't work 9.3. I need to deinstall/get rid of the RTL8180L (173) driver and install an older one - 154 -. How do I do that?

Thanks for your help.

hust recompile your kernel, if that was the way you installed the drivers.

Otherwise you need to describe how you installed these drivers in the first place.

First I installed ndiswrapper. After downloading the Realtek RTL8180L (173) files - from the Realtek support website, I typed in the following

ndiswrapper -i NDIS8180.inf

I then checked to see if they had been installed properly

ndiswrapper -l NDIS8180.inf

and here is where I got the error message

NDIS8180.inf incorrect driver!

At this point I if figured that I might want ot try out the older build of the driver since so many people had said that it worked for them.

I wanted to first deinstall the drivers so to do that I typed in

ndiswrapper -e NDIS8180.inf

That seemed to work.

The problem is when I do a check

ndiswrapper -l

I keep getting the message I did before -

NDIS8180.inf incorrect driver!

Now I am not sure if the dirver has been deinstalled or not.

Also, I have been unable to find the 8180l build 154 files. I have looked every where suggested by www.linux-on-laptops.com. They had some great suggestions and helped.

I am not sure how to proceed. This is one of two problems I want to get sorted out. The second problem doesn't belong here.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

Sorry, I know a bit about kernel modules, and stuff but diswrapper and the sorts is just greek to me :-)

Can't help you.