Update problems

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Nov 28 16:27:27 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I got the update to Intrepid on this laptop but it broke my WiFi.
> This is because I manually put the driver into the old kernel. Guess I
> need to do it again and maybe just "make install" will work.

That is the usual procedure if the kernel has a new version number. From 
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-November/000791.html>:

| ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
| been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
| reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. 


Nils




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