Hardy upgrade painful

[Neil Cherry]

steve wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
> | Well this was a disaster! I let the update managed update from Gutsy
> | to Hardy and it did it's thing for several hours. When it was done
> | I was greeted by a nice kernel panic: not syncing VFS: ... basically
> | someone forgot to edit the grub menu and add the initrd line (grrr).
> |
> | When I login I find that HAL failed to initialize (oh great).
> | Okay, so I figure them out. Next I boot up to find that I can't
> | sudo anything. Luckily I had given root a password. Next I find
> | I need to add my hostname to /etc/host so I can sudo (done). The
> | current thing I'm working on is getting the restricted driver
> | (the Atheos 5212 driver - ath_hal etc.) working. But when I go
> | to the menus I find no place to access restricted drivers and I
> | I'm not allowed to administer the networks (???).
> |
> | Now before I go and hack the files so Ubuntu behaves like every
> | other Linux does anyone have a suggestion as to how to enable
> | the restricted drivers?
> |
> | Right now I'm stuck on 2.6.22-14 so I can restored my network
> | card to working order (manually!).
> |
> 
> its called hardware drivers now, not restricted drivers.  same place,
> system> admin> hardware drivers.  make sure you have restricted kernel
> modules installed for your kernel or nothings going to show up under
> hardware drivers.

Looks like I get to eat my words (some what). Apparently something
must have gone wrong. I did a 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' and after
it finished I rebooted (actually the machine locked up 45 minutes
later). When it booted back up everything was working like it was
before the upgrade, except for Firefox. Four extensions are no
longer working. One is Firebug which I'm not too happy about losing.

Thanks for the information on the change from restricted to
hardware. I'm sure that I'll need that in the future.

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