[Durham] WiFi does not work on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

[Bill and Anne Pritchard]

Hi Olly,
I deleted the contents of ndiswrapper.conf, entered blacklist ndiswrapper in gedit but it said I do not have permission to save the file. I restored file to initial state. Please advise.
Bill

--- On Mon, 24/9/12, Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly at burnett-hall.co.uk> wrote:

From: Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly at burnett-hall.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Durham] WiFi does not work on Ubuntu 12.04LTS
To: "Durham Linux User Group mailing list" <durham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Monday, 24 September, 2012, 19:06

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:53:37 +0100 (BST)
Bill and Anne Pritchard <wdnp2 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> There is a file called ndiswrapper.conf in etc/modprobe.d although I
> have uninstalled ndiswrapper with the software centre.There are also
> several blacklist files including blacklist.conf. I am not sure what
> to do-can you help? Bill

Edit the /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf file and either delete all
the existing lines, or comment them out by sticking a # symbol at the
start of each line.  Then add a new line reading 'blacklist
ndiswrapper'.  That should stop that module from ever being loaded.

- olly

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