Right kernel for centrino?

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Fri May 20 02:55:39 UTC 2005


> I would upgrade to the i686 kernel. Basically the difference between the
> 2 architectures is the i386 is optimized for older Pentium processors
> and the i686 for the newer processors that are currently out there. No
> you don't have to reinstall the whole thing, you can just upgrade the
> kernel. Not sure if your running any special modules or not so here are
> the instructions on how to do it. Just open up a terminal and type this
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-686


of the simpler to  remember:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-686

linux-686 is a meta package that will install both the actual kernel
and the restricted modules.




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