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Getting proper driver to load at bootI have a ThinkPad T60 and after installing Debian for the first time was getting horrible network issues when using Samba, similar to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/42572 Updated IBM BIOS, didn't fix it. I eventually found out that compiling an earlier driver (7.6.15.4) fixed the issue, but the old driver continues to load when I reboot and I have to stop networking, rmmod the old driver and modprobe the new one. In RedHat I used to use mkinitrd to rebuild the kernel image and set grub to load it. I don't know what to do under Debian. I couldn't find the answer here after a search, and I can't seem to find it online. The proper (rolled-back) driver is in /lib/modules/kernel, so the "undesired" one must be in the kernel image, right? Help? Thanks! Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Re: Getting proper driver to load at boot
The original driver is not compiled into the kernel; otherwise it will never respond to "rmmod".
The easiest solution: find the driver file and temporarily move it to a directory in '/root'. That will prevent it from loading at boot because it won't be found.