Re: [Vserver] Wifi problem after kernel patch (ubuntu dapper)

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon 12 Jun 2006 - 16:39:04 BST
Message-ID: <20060612153904.GC6742@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:25:37PM +0200, Dominique Chabord wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I've installed Ubuntu dapper on a new laptop (Hitachi M40-307)
> according to page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VServer
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.15-24-386
> Thanks to the excellent work done there. It helps me a lot to put
> vservers at work on the laptop that I use to evangelize customers and
> propects. I use sarge on production servers but ubuntu is a convenient
> choice for my laptop. (I'm not a technical guy first)
>
> Everything seems to work straight out the box except that I lost my
> wifi connection between the original and the patched kernels.
> The wifi card is recognized by both (lspci) :
> 0000:02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown
> device 001a (rev 01)
> But I guess the module is messed up.
> Is it a bug in the ubuntu-vserver package or is it normal behavior?

probably a 'bug' or a fault on your side (not sure
what exactly changed)

> Should I rebuild the package or modprobe something ?

if you _change_ the kernel, you always need to rebuild
the modules, as they are versioned and are likely to
break when the ekrnel changes ...

> Before I dig any further and make some tries to put it at work anyway,
> I'm wondering if this makes sens to get different modules lists since
> the patched kernel is supposed to be issued from the official Dapper
> distribution. For many of you this might not really be a big problem to
> get it fixed, but for me it represents the "bleeding edge" of my
> knowhow ;-) I guess the procedure is now so simple that I did not ask
> myself about the right questions.

should work fine with linux-vserver patched kernels

best,
Herbert

> Thank you for any help
> Dominique
>
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