My problem is that the bcm43xx driver fails to connect to my WEP (shared key) router, whilst the ndiswrapper driver works fine. (My laptop has a bcm4318 built in.)

Both drivers correctly find the bcm4318, but SoftMAC can't seem to get a proper handshake.

Both drivers use the same network configuration files and settings.

So, is there any simple way to disable the bcm3xx driver and replace it with ndiswrapper? When I do a modprobe -r bcm43xx the driver is re-installed during a reboot, and I've forgotten where the boot configuration information is stored so I can remove it from there.

P.S. -- This thread might be better in the "networking" or "laptops" threads, but I felt that the problem was more specifically a Fedora one.

Blacklist the bcm42xx and ieee80211_softmac, hint look in /etc/hotplug for example.

Ah! Thanks.