Atten: Starling owners | karmic koala upgrade information

[thomasaaron]

Thank you. I'm passing this on to R&D for their consideration.

[thomasaaron]

Unless they change their minds and go with the wrapper option, it looks like we are moving forward with the custom kernel.

[ligaa9mm]

Thanks for the instructions, jsimmond. I followed them to the letter, but unfortunately, my wireless still does not work. My network has only MAC filtering on it but is otherwise unsecured, so I know it's not a WEP/WPA issue. I guess I'll just have to wait.

thomasaaron, thanks for the update. Any ETA yet on the kernel? And just out of curiosity, do you know what exactly it is with the old wireless code that is incompatible with karmic?

[thomasaaron]

Starling Update:

We've decided that the best route is going to be a custom kernel for the Starling for the remainder of 9.10.

Our techs have already made significant progress in that direction. Not sure about the ETA yet or how they will send the fix down to you, but we'll make it happen -- and make it as painless as humanly possible.

I'll follow up the moment I get more information.

Best,
Tom

[rluethy]

Starling Update:

We've decided that the best route is going to be a custom kernel for the Starling for the remainder of 9.10.

Our techs have already made significant progress in that direction. Not sure about the ETA yet or how they will send the fix down to you, but we'll make it happen -- and make it as painless as humanly possible.

I'll follow up the moment I get more information.

Best,
Tom

Does that mean, if I install the custom kernel I will not be able to upgrade the kernel in the future?

[hoodwink]

Thanks for the workaround. ndiswrapper did the trick for me. Replying via wireless. Too bad thad Ubuntu didn't do a little more testing before releasing KK.

[thomasaaron]

Does that mean, if I install the custom kernel I will not be able to upgrade the kernel in the future?

I'm not sure. Possibly.

But we're also working to get the wireless driver added to the *next* version. That will cure the problem permanently.

[HotShotDJ]

Thomasaaron:

If you are going to be using a custom kernel for Starling, why not kill two birds with one stone? By compiling it with "CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m" and "CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m" you can improve power management as well. Although this doesn't correct the problem with some computers calculating percentage to fully discharged/charged, it DOES improve the following:

AC detection by NVidia graphics (at least with the G105M)
Better (more agressive) power-saving when on battery power (I'm not sure what subsystem is responsible for this -- perhaps "laptop mode?")

Attached are my config changes. Of course, my CPU dependent settings are probably not appropriate for general distribution.

[ligaa9mm]

Just throwing my bit in - I reinstalled 9.10 and then followed jsimmond's tutorial before doing any other updates or anything... and it works! Thanks again, jsimmond!

[qiMakur]

Someone should alter the page at http://knowledge76.com/index.php/KarmicUpgrade so that it reflects the current upgrade-not-recommended status.

This morning I decided to finally perform the upgrade and followed the instructions on that page and only when I ran into problems did I discover this discussion and the recommendation that the upgrade NOT be performed. Would that I'd had that information about 4 hours ago.