Bug#604613: Status of this bug?
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:51 -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>> So what is happening with this bug? It seems to be the same thing that
>> has broken what was perfectly working wifi on my laptop when I had
>> Lenny installed. But upgrading to Squeeze so I could continue to get
>> security updates has left me with no wireless connection unless I plug
>> in an external device. It doesn't seem to have been marked as fixed,
>> as it should not be if it is still present in the standard Squeeze
>> kernel, but at the end of one of the responses it says a fix has been
>> entered into the 2.6.36~rc5-1~experimental.1 kernel.
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>The bug log is at <http://bugs.debian.org/604613> and there is no claim
>that it has been fixed.
>
>Can you test Linux 3.2 from testing/unstable/squeeze-backports? Then
>we can see whether it was fixed after Linux 2.6.32. and either report the
>bug upstream or try to find that fix.
When I first discovered on upgrading that the wifi was broken I tried the 3.2 backport
kernel. It couldn't finish loading, but froze with a black screen. If it has been updated
since early March I could try it again. But when I tried to install it again there was a
dependency problem that I don't recall from my first attempt. It says that the newer
kernel needs an backported initramfs as well. Was initramfs possibly involved in the
problem that caused it to not be able to load before? Would updating that for the
newer kernel make the current stable kernel not able to load? Not knowing for certain
that the backport would work, I would hate to get into a situation where I could not
revert without some major rescue effort.
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