Ralph Ellis wrote:
Ralph Ellis wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Soon, SUSE SHOULD have a NEW kernel for update! There are some nice things in it, like performance improvements. But, for laptop users, for the first time, and FINALLY, there is some Broadcom wi-fi support.
Fred Any progress on this that you are aware of Fred?
Cheers.
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Desiderius Erasmus The latest that I know about is 2.6.16.20-2 I have been running it for about a week without problems. It seems to be a bit faster. I tried it on my laptop as well but I use a lan connection
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:20, Basil Chupin wrote: there so I can't let you know if the wi-fi support works also. The kernel in its various forms in available at:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse /
Happy tinkering Ralph Ellis Many thanks, Ralph. I have now installed this latest kernel.
It seems to me that it now works a bit faster than the earlier versions - but I may be wrong.
Cheers.
-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".
Desiderius Erasmus I have found that most of the updates from the factory area have both increased speed and stability. However, installing from there is a gamble. I am fortunate that I have disk imaging software so if I do mess things up, I just blow away the installation with the last saved disk image. I do find
On Friday 07 July 2006 01:44, Basil Chupin wrote: that anything to do with the kernel or xorg requires a re install of the video drivers but other than that everything is working well. Ralph Elllis
So far everything is working AOK, and the kernel does make things run faster. Reinstalling the video driver is the norm; I'm used to it and now it only takes me just a couple of minutes to have a new (nvidia) driver compiled. I back only a select list of "criticals" to an external HD and if things do go wrong I simply reinstall the complete system and use the backed-up bits. But I must consider doing what you are doing (a disk image) as I do have the capacity to do it. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com