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Bug#701511: [squeeze] At boot, the wrong b43 driver is loaded. I installed compat-drivers-3.7.6-1



On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 01:15 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> >> tomdean wrote:
> 
> >>> The b43 driver installed at boot does not work.  I have included a
> >>> work around.
> >>> I installed the b43 driver from compat-drivers-3.7.6-1 and it works.
> [...]
> > sudo update-initramfs -u
> >
> > Fixed the problem.
> 
> Um, do you mean that when installing squeeze on your hardware:
> 
>  1. The b43 driver does not work out of the box
>  2. Running "sudo update-initramfs -u" is enough to get it working
>  3. An alternative way to get it working is to install the b43 driver
>     from compat-drivers
> 
> ?
[...]

I think the new driver from compat-drivers is needed, but until Thomas
ran update-initramfs the old driver would still be loaded from the
initramfs.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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