Removing a Program

[AustinTexas]

Sadly for your situation, it will auto-install at every startup, because support for the offending wireless chipset is built into the Linux kernel itself. You can try not turning it on until after you boot, to see what happens. I imagine, though, that the kernel would once again auto-detect it.

Unless someone's written something to 'switch off' selective parts of the kernel, I'm afraid that to uninstall the offending driver, you would have to:

Get the source code for the kernel (easy enough),

then remove the offending driver(s) from the kernel source,

find and remove anything ELSE in the kernel that calls on those drivers to be there,

and then compile the modified kernel source into your own custom kernel.

Wouldn't it simply be a matter of blacklisting that particular module?
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf




Bart

To list all manually installed programs enter this command:

Code:

zgrep 'get install' /var/log/apt/history.log*