http://jhn.blogentis.net/2006/05/15/ipw2200-firmware 2006-05-20T12:09:42+03:00 Last night I felt like upgrading the linux kernel on my laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-FS215B) which runs an Ubuntu (Dapper). I prefer running a custom built kernel on this machine because, when using the precompiled kernels that come with the distribution, a lot of unwanted modules persist on mistakenly load themselfs. The previous kernel I had installed was 2.6.15.1 which was the latest kernel with Dapper when I decided to upgrade from Breezy. Now, 2.6.15.6 is available as a source package.Taking all the steps by the book, untar, make oldconfig, make-kpkg kernel_image etc, in not so few minutes the deb package was ready. Reboot. Blogentis http://jhn.blogentis.net/2006/05/15/ipw2200-firmware#c20393

Ah, then the proper course of action would be to modify /etc/modprobe.d/local and set the proper modules for your hardware. Then run update-initramfs which will update the initrd images of the installed kernels with the new settings. Oh, and future kernel installations will honor these settings too.

Tassos Bassoukos (http://tassos.blogentis.net) 2006-05-20T12:09:42+03:00 2006-05-20T12:09:42+03:00 http://jhn.blogentis.net/2006/05/15/ipw2200-firmware#c20392

<blockquote> <em>and I don't consider four extra megs (resident, non-swappable) to have an effect<br/> </em> </blockquote> <br/> <p>Neither do I, but, as mentioned already, I noticed back when I was using kernel 2.6.12 that some of the precompiled modules (generic drivers) got loaded instead of the right ones (specific drivers). This happened only in my vaio and since then I use a custom built kernel.<br/>

jhn (http://jhn.blogentis.net/) 2006-05-19T02:45:27+03:00 2006-05-19T02:45:27+03:00 http://jhn.blogentis.net/2006/05/15/ipw2200-firmware#c20391

To be honest, I've forgotten when the last time was that I had to compile a Linux kernel. Nowadays the precompiled everything-in-modules kernel works just fine on all my hardware, and I don't consider four extra megs (resident, non-swappable) to have an effect.

Tassos Bassoukos (http://tassos.blogentis.net) 2006-05-19T02:03:59+03:00 2006-05-19T02:03:59+03:00 http://jhn.blogentis.net/2006/05/15/ipw2200-firmware#c20390

<em>gouhou gouhou</em> <br/> <br/> <p>..is that a technical term? ;-p

Oneiros (http://oneiros.gr/blog) 2006-05-19T04:24:53+03:00 2006-05-19T04:24:53+03:00