22 Jan
2006
22 Jan
'06
8:37 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:34 +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Had various Wireless card working..For internal MiniPCI cards the atheros card in my Thinkpad was working well (up until the latest kernel update)
Ignore that bit...I was talking rubbish
A few days ago I noticed that my Laptop was running the i386 kernel build rather than the i686 one...So I changed it but then got distracted and didn't reboot.
Then on Friday synaptic picked up a kernel update package...I applied it and rebooted...result no Wireless (which I prematurely blamed on the update...forgetting that I had changed the kernel package)
What I had forgotten to do was load the restricted modules package for i686 to match the kernel....Do'h