[Bug 294081] [NEW] ssb module doesn't let ndiswrapper load

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Public bug reported:

I have  a b43 broadcom chipset for wifi, but the b43 module is very
unstable: it drops the connection after a few minutes. So i have to use
ndiswrapper. I installed the firmware just fine, and blacklisted ssb,
and b43 in order to force ndiswrapper to load.

Unfortunately, even after having blacklisted ssb, it still loads and
takes control of the wireless chipset and simply does not let
ndiswrapper to do its thing. It loads the "b43-pic-bridge" driver
instead of letting ndiswrapper to use its "wl" one.

The reason for ssb loading EVEN if it's blacklisted, it's because of the
b44 driver which is loaded automatically, that also needs ssb. You see,
this DELL laptop has both a b43 and a b44 chipset in there, and so even
if I have b43 and ssb blacklisted, b44 keeps loading ssb back before
ndiswrapper is. And  so ssb takes control of the wifi chipset (with the
b43 driver blacklisted, so it  doesn't load any driver, it just keeps
the control tight), and poor ndiswrapper fails.

This is the chicken and the egg problem btw, but I didn't have these
problems with the older ubuntu, because it didn't use b44/b43/ssb back
then for these chipsets. Now that it does, this needs to be fixed
somehow. Either fix the b43 module to be rock solid so I don't need to
use ndiswrapper, or fix the ssb problem to allow ndiswrapper take
control over the wifi chipset.

** Affects: ndiswrapper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ssb module doesn't let ndiswrapper load
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