Re: Networking problems
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:13 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list.
>
> Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite
> to cc the posters.
No problem - different places, different rules. Here they are as on
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct. Possibly the
assumption is that everyone is subscribed unless he/she states
otherwise.
> And i know im breaking threading by responding now
> with a new message. I have to stop the digest
> subscription, sorry....
For me now it's not too bad - turning on fallback threading by subject
helps sometimes.
> >$ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6*
>
> Sorry about the formatting.
Right, should have advised you to grep the result.
> ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.18+6etch2
> Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1
> Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> I dont know where 2.6.18-6 is--the update applet on
> the panel told me there was an update, i ran it, it
> said
> that 2.6.18-6 was ready, i installed it, but now its
> not there, i guess.
Hmm, on second thoughts - wasn't it the latest security update,
linux-image-2.6-686 version 2.6.18+6etch2? This "+6" can be misleading,
because this package depends on another - linux-image-2.6.18-5-686,
which contains the actual kernel. So it's still 2.6.18-5, there's no
2.6.18-6 in Etch yet. And I suppose this is what you've installed,
perfectly okay.
> >What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the
> >driver module
> >installed for the newer kernel version.
>
> Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. [...]
Same as I have, it's pretty widespread. Probably you haven't installed
the driver module for your latest kernel (2.6.18-5). Try installing
the ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 package, it will keep your modules
up-to-date in the future. And right now it depends on
ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-5-686, which will enable the chip on your
2.6.18-5 kernel.
Maybe you've installed ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686 earlier, so it
fitted the old kernel, but without the ipw3945-modules-2.6-686
"umbrella package" it just stuck at this version.
Hope this helps,
--
Krzysztof Lubanski
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