Hi everyone! I've recently bought a nice TP-Link USB wireless adapter (TL-WN7200ND) to use in my Dell Studio 1555. This notebook has a Broadcom wireless adapter onboard (BCM43224) which has been working correctly ever since.

The problem is that, when I install the compat-wireless driver package, the onboard wireless adapter stops working and the kernel doesn't let me load the "wl" module that supports it. The message it returns is the following:

So my question is, why is it that they collide if they don't support the same chipset? And, How could I do to solve this problem?

Thanks to everyone in advancee!

Dunno those modules, but they are probably mutually incompatible because they are not "just" drivers. They may embed some stack.

Thanks for your response. But, is there any solution to this?

Well, at first glance, no.
But i'm really not sure as i never tried this.

Hope someone has a better answer.

I have recently tried again and now I happily have both network cards working!!

Reading a little more about compat-wireless and its capabilities, I found out that the source code provides you with a script that lets you select the specific driver you need. As I knew which chipset I was working with, the script automatically generated a new makefile with the driver family I specified.
After that, I uninstalled bluetooth drivers that the package installed by itself, and finally recompiled the wl driver module for the integrated card. Fortunately, after all these steps, I have both network cards and bluetooth working perfectly in the 2.6.38 kernel.

Thanks for your help! I'm marking this thread as solved

Congratulations ^^.

And thanks for sharing the solution.