Dapper, Kernel 2.6.17 & the Broadcom wireless card

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:12:26PM -0400, John Dillworth wrote:
> I've been trying to get my Linksys wpc54g wireless card working with Dapper
> without much success.  I read today that the new Kernel, 2.6.17 has support
> for the Broadcom chipset contained in the Linksys card.  Will dapper be
> updated to the 2.6.17 kernel?  If so, when would that probably be?  

It's very unlikely, but you can always roll your own kernel -- it's not
really that hard.  wget the kernel source at www.kernel.org, apt-get install
kernel-package, and read the documentation in the Debian Reference Guide --
or look on the wiki, I think  there's quite a bit of info aboutthis.

matt



> 
>  
> 

> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users


-------------------------------------------
Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
--------------------------------------------