[10.04]-Safe to upgrade kernel Lucid to Maverick?

[Jesse Palser]

  On 09/04/2010 03:48 PM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 15:34:19 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi<lmnicolosi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jesse Palser<SLNTHERO at aol.com>  wrote:
>>>> Is it safe now to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 32bit kernel
>>>> from Lucid to Maverick?
>>> No! Maverick stable has not been released yet.
>> You are confusing Maverick as a distribution with its kernel. The
>> Maverick kernel is considered stable by kernel.org. I have a colleague
>> who is using it with Lucid (I have forgotten why but there is a good
>> technical reason for this and he didn't have the time or will to
>> compile his own 2.6.35) and his laptop is running just fine.
>>
>> Two options (assuming that you don't want to compile your own kernel).
>>
>> 1. Mess around with apt-pinning to direct apt to use Maverick's
>> linux-image-xxx and linux-headers-xxx and Lucid's everything else.
>>
>> 2. Download Maverick's linux-image-xxx and linux-headers-xxx debs and
>> install them with dpkg. (You can probably set up apt not to upgrade
>> the Lucid kernel with apt pinning - and you wouldn't have to add the
>> Maverick repos to sources.list.)
>>
> Much easier is to use the ppa for the maverick kernel build for lucid,
> works a treat on my netbook, in particular replacing the
> dysfunctional staging rt2860 wifi driver with the much more reliable and
> functional rt2800pci driver.
>
> ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa
>
> and removal is just a ppa-purge away, no pinning or other hackery.
>
> -jh

Hi,

I can you further explain how to use "ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa" ?

I added that to Update Manager/Settings/Other Software
and reloaded it, but when I check for updates,
the Maverick kernel does not show?

Thanks!

Jesse