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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