Re: apt-get -dist-upgrade leaves wireless keyboard and mouse useless on "sarge"
Hi,
On 2007-12-28 04:19 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity <schmity@nctv.com> was heard to say:
>> brent@Linuxbox:~$ uname -r
>> 2.4.27-3-386
>> brent@Linuxbox:~$
>
> Ah. Ok, you're running a very very old kernel (one that's not even
> part of etch, let alone lenny) with up-to-date user-space software. I
> bet the problem is related to the hardware detection code, which
> probably doesn't know about whatever old driver your kernel needs.
>
> Could you try installing the latest kernel in lenny and see if it
> helps? I believe that would be linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 -- obviously
> only if you have a 686+ chip (anything made in the last 5 years will be).
He's not running lenny, the libc6 there does not work at all with a 2.4
kernel.
Sven
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