Ubuntu tries to use the bcm43xx driver for my wlan card (a dell wireless 1350), which doesn't work (it needs something along the lines of bcmwl5). I have gotten ndiswrapper setup up correctly (i think) and want to get Ubuntu to use the ndiswrapper driver, but i can't find anything about how to do this.

At the moment, dmesg says "[17180973.840000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed." when i try to activate the connection, i.e. its still trying to use bcm43xx.

Oh yea, i'm running 6.06 (i havent bothered with an apt-get dist-upgrade yet, should i?)

if i remember correctly, if you add
"blacklist bcm43xx" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

it should stop that module from being loaded

Well, I found a tutorial that was talking about how acx interfered with ndiswrapper, and tried removing bcm43xx in the same way (rmmod and then move the directory away) and it worked... after I rebooted (so my wireless card light going on was a suprise :P).

Thanks anyway.