TimDaniels
February 12th, 2009, 08:03 AM
`uname -r` tells me that kernel 2.6.24-19-generic is running. And for some reason, the directory /lib/modules contains the directories:
2.6.24-19-generic, 2.6.24-21-generic, 2.6.24-23-generic
Currently, the wireless driver doesn't seem to work because the Network Manager dropdown menu doesn't offer a checkbox to enable wireless networking, and the system doesn't see any surrounding wireless networks. (The dual-booted Vista does wireless just fine, though.) The Hardware Drivers app shows only the B43 chipset driver to be available, and it lists it as being enabled and in use. There is also a supposedly better "STA" driver available from Broadcom that is for kernels more recent than 2.6.24-19-generic (see http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php). I would like to run that STA driver instead of the B43 driver (which apparently has somehow gotten secretly disabled - contrary to what Hardware Drivers says), but to use it, the kernel must be more recent than the 2.6.24-19-generic kernel that is running.
So how should I go about dumping the B43 driver, switching from the 2.6.24-19-generic kernel to a more recent kernel, and then getting the Broadcom STA driver listed as a selection in Hardware Drivers?
*TimDaniels*
2.6.24-19-generic, 2.6.24-21-generic, 2.6.24-23-generic
Currently, the wireless driver doesn't seem to work because the Network Manager dropdown menu doesn't offer a checkbox to enable wireless networking, and the system doesn't see any surrounding wireless networks. (The dual-booted Vista does wireless just fine, though.) The Hardware Drivers app shows only the B43 chipset driver to be available, and it lists it as being enabled and in use. There is also a supposedly better "STA" driver available from Broadcom that is for kernels more recent than 2.6.24-19-generic (see http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php). I would like to run that STA driver instead of the B43 driver (which apparently has somehow gotten secretly disabled - contrary to what Hardware Drivers says), but to use it, the kernel must be more recent than the 2.6.24-19-generic kernel that is running.
So how should I go about dumping the B43 driver, switching from the 2.6.24-19-generic kernel to a more recent kernel, and then getting the Broadcom STA driver listed as a selection in Hardware Drivers?
*TimDaniels*