nevarDeath
October 25th, 2009, 07:19 PM
So the other day I got an update notification for a newer kernel and some libpopp stuff for pdf rendering. I dutifully upgraded and upon restart, my wireless wouldn't work! the kernel was upgraded to 2.6.28-16-generic I am using ubuntu 9.04. So I switched from madwifi drivers to ath5k and that worked fine, but I need the madwifi drivers for packet injection. When I switched back to madwifi, wireless quit working. I goggled around and found out about hitting 'esc' at the grub menu and selecting a previous kernel 2.6.28-15-generic and everything was fine again.
So I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and changed the default number to 2 so it will always boot the 2.6.28-15-generic kernel.
Everything is fine, but I am wondering if it's safe to continue to apply updates as normal or upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 in a few days? Can i just pretend like nothing happened or do I need to undo the kernel 2.6.28-16-generic upgrade somehow? I'm not updating anything till I can find out more about this, thanks in advance!
So I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and changed the default number to 2 so it will always boot the 2.6.28-15-generic kernel.
Everything is fine, but I am wondering if it's safe to continue to apply updates as normal or upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 in a few days? Can i just pretend like nothing happened or do I need to undo the kernel 2.6.28-16-generic upgrade somehow? I'm not updating anything till I can find out more about this, thanks in advance!