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On 9/10/08, Robert Epprecht <epprecht at solnet.ch> wrote:
> "David L. Johnson" <david.johnson at Lehigh.EDU> writes:
>
>> I know it would have been more of a contribution to try upgrading to
>> current lenny, with a 2.6.26 kernel, but at the moment I can't find the
>> energy to fight configurations as much as I have been reading about on
>> this list.
>>
>> So, now, if I were to upgrade my 701, would I be likely to find wifi
>> working, toggling off/on, etc?  Suspending (to ram) working?  The
>> warning that was posted a while back was, by me at least, appreciated,
>> since I could not have dealt with no wifi access on that machine at this
>> time.  But, no one has explicitly given an all-clear, although it
>> certainly seems that things are settling down.
>
> There are workarounds for the thermal shutdown problem and for the acpi
> failure but not a proper and accepted fix, yet.
> See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Bugs/2.6.26
>
> So why not keep the old kernel and modules as a fallback and then upgrade?
>
> In aptitude you can serch for all packets with 2.6.25 in the name, keep them
> at the current version (by pressing =) before you upgrade. Make sure that no
> such packet is marked as automatically installed with an A, or else it would
> be removed. Carefully read what aptitude wants to do before you accept.
>
> So you can try the new kernel, help the project with feedback, but still can
> savely boot into 2.6.25-2
>
> just my opinion...
>
> Robert Epprecht
>
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