Uninstall preinstalled drivers

[a10]

This is a general drivers question

I need to update my wireless drivers. The ones I'm currently using came preinstalled when I installed xubuntu on my laptop. How do I uninstall those old drivers so that I can install the new ones that I downloaded from the rt2x00 project website?

Thanks for your help

[khafa]

try to remove them with apt-get

[daark.child]

You could try blacklisting the drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

[a10]

I solved the problem with a script but I'd like to know more about blacklisting.

Does blacklisting mark the drivers for removal or does it just prevent them from loading at startup? If it just prevents them from starting up then what happens with drivers of the same name? (upgrading) If it removes them would it not take effect until startup?

Thank you

[daark.child]

Blacklisting prevents the drivers from being loaded (you can't really permanently remove drivers that are built into the kernel or modules that are shipped as part of the kernel). Drivers of the exact same name won't be loaded. Blacklisting is done in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.