kernel kraziness

[Andy Boersma]

after the last update I had to manually re-add the wireless drivers
in the driver directory.

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci

And everything worked after a reboot.



Ralph Pichie wrote:
> Early Friday, I did a major update on my main laptop, including some
> some very essential packages. Later that day, I found that my wifi
> card did not work anymore and that I had to reinstall madwifi.
> Fortunately, I had saved the instructions in my Tomboy notes and was
> soon good-to-go, or so I thought.
>
> Attempting to reboot again, I found that Ubuntu 8.04 would no longer
> start, even in recovery mode, until I rebooted and chose an older
> kernel as a boot option. I have since edited my Grub menu so that the
> older kernel is the default choice.
>
> While the system is functioning, I'd like to use a more current
> kernel. Any ideas what might be wrong and how to fix it?
>
> My computer is an Acer Aspire 5315-2176, dual booted with Winbloze
> Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. I use madwifi to handle the proprietary
> wireless.
>
> the relevant section of my menu.lst file reads like so
>
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
> quiet
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
>
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
> quiet
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic (recovery mode)
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
> quiet
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
> root=UUID=e73a8c60-84c4-42d1-9905-e7297aa3922d ro single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
>
> title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
> root		(hd0,4)
> kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
> quiet
>
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>
> # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
> # ones.
> title		Other operating systems:
> root
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/sda1
> title		Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
> root		(hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader	+1
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/sda2
> title		Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
> root		(hd0,1)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader	+1
>
>