Re: re Laptop Does Not See eth0
Glyn Millington <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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| Organization | Christ Church, Henley on Thames, U.K. |
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Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Glyn Millington wrote: > >> To cut it short, he had to upgrade to a 2.6.38 kernel! > > I think the appropriate next step is to get a newer kernel. If I can > take the laptop to a local coffee shop with wifi access (it won't work > here), I could use slackpkg to upgrade the entire system from 13.37 to > current. I did this with my Dell when it first arrived to address > similar driver issues (but that was with the video chip, not the > ethernet chip). > > What do folks here think is the most practical approach: custom > kernel or upgrade to current? If it were me I'd take the custom kernel route, but that's only because I've done it before! atb Glyn -- RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-) STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.os.linux.slackware JFGI http://jfgi.us/