netgear (marvell) wifi card misidentified as atheros

bobterri · 03-03-2007, 12:51 AM

I installed SAM Linux on an old Gateway box. It misidentified my netgear wifi card (marvell technology) as an atheros. I know I need to use ndiswrapper and install the proper *.inf for this netgear card. But, I need to know if and how I can uninstall the atheros driver first.

bobterri · 03-03-2007, 10:18 AM

I guess my main question is how can I stop SAM-Linux from recognizing my netgear wireless card as an atheros wireless card? There's got to be an answer from someone.

2Gnu · 03-03-2007, 11:47 AM

I'm not familiar with your distro, but you can blacklist the Atheros driver to keep it from loading.

What's the relevant part of lspci -v look like?

bobterri · 03-04-2007, 09:56 PM

Thanks 2Gnu. I got it working by doing precisely that. I blacklisted atheros and then using ndiswrapper loaded the Marvell *.inf driver and all is well in wifi world!!!