how to un install a driver

[John Pierce]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Matthew
Flaschen<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Germán Carrasco wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> Sorry for the spam. I am new using kubuntu and linux os technology.
>
> This isn't spam.  We're glad to help.
>
>> my question is how to un install a driver (network card driver). is a
>> "driver" sinonym of "module" in linux?
>
> Some drivers are modules, but not all (some are part of the core
> kernel).  Anyway, if you want to know how to uninstall a driver, the
> obvious question is how you installed it.
>
> Matt Flaschen
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I would use modprobe -r to remove a module from the running kernel.
Using rmmod can make a system unstable, more so than using modprobe to
remove it.  If I remember correctly modprobe -r will take care of any
dependencies in the module chain, rmmod will just force the module
out.

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