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Old 06-02-2005, 08:33 AM   #1
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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.
 
Old 06-02-2005, 02:33 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 06-03-2005, 04:11 AM   #3
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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.
 
Old 06-03-2005, 12:58 PM   #4
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Sorry, I know a bit about kernel modules, and stuff but diswrapper and the sorts is just greek to me :-)

Can't help you.
 
  


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