[ubuntu-in] Interested in hearing about ser experiences about Karmic Koala (9.10)

[Saikiran Madugula]

Vishal Rao wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com
> <mailto:onkarshinde at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Saikiran Madugula
>     <hummerbliss at gmail.com <mailto:hummerbliss at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Onkar Shinde wrote:
>     >>> - network manager is gone I do not see it on the panel.
>     >>
>     >> May be it is not gone form panel but the icon is something you
>     are not
>     >> familiar with so you can not recognize it.
>     >> Or may be the applet got uninstalled for some reason and you should
>     >> try installing network-manager-gnome package.
>     >>
>     >
>     > The applet for some reason is not installed by default. Indicator
>     applet and
>     > notification area are the ones to install (figured after trying
>     out different
>     > applets). I guess this happens when you upgrade or do a fresh
>     install with the
>     > same /home folder. But all is good now.
>     >
>     >>> - Kernel hangs when I try to enable broadcom proprietary drivers
>     so probably I
>     >>> can not use wireless on my laptop. (people still use broadcom
>     isn't it ?).
>     >>> Probably will open a bug for it.
>     >>
>     >> Which card is it? I have broadcom 4306. I am wondering if I should
>     >> hold off upgrade to karmic.
>     >
>     > The card is Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
>     LAN Controller.
>     > The kernel hung once and oopsed second time but seems to be
>     working now dunno if
>     > it would be stable.
> 
>     IIRC this chipset now has partially open source drivers. I believe you
>     need to install  bcmwl-kernel-source package.
> 
> 
> 
> Have all of you guys all upgraded? I usually do fresh installs each
> time, and this time too it seems to be stable bcm 4312 (HP tx1302 tablet
> PC) I've done updates for about 1 hr worth of downloads - stable for me...
> 
I did a fresh install.