[ALUG] Re: How soon will 2.6.18 kernel appear in stable releases?

[Adam Bower]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:16:30PM +0100, cl at isbd.net wrote:

> Yes, I want Jmicron SATA/PATA support so I can access my DVD/CD drive.
> 
> I also believe that my Realtek 8168 ethernet needs a very recent
> kernel.

I think I already mentioned that the next release of Ubuntu should
support all of that hardware, they are shipping a 2.6.17 kernel but with
the bits you want backported. Release day is October 20th. In fact 
taking a look, my machine (running the Ubuntu beta release of Edgy) has
the module for the jmicron already in it, sounds like the install 
problem you hit was that it wasn't in the initrd on the boot kernel on 
the install disc for the beta.

Adam
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