Comment 116 for bug 579300

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Kim Cascone <email address hidden> wrote:
> but I experienced a couple of problems trying to use your 2.6.35.8+oss kernel:
> - I get a long list of errors (can't cut and paste from the Gdebi console) when installing both the image and the headers from deb
> - after installing the headers Gdebi lists an error which says I need to install the headers (?!)

I've tried thiss on mine, an Intel Celeron x86 laptop

> - the broadcom driver doesn't work in this kernel so I'm not able to get wifi
> here is the broadcom driver url:
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Don't have an STA wifi setup, but already it sounds like you have
other problems. Possible that it is barfing at the '+' in the version
string? I can try setting off another build with a more conventional
name...

> - the Grub menu won't load by holding down the <shift> key during boot
> that's all I found so far

I've tried this too and it still works. However, the grub config will
have been rewritten during the kernel installation. Is it possible
that you are getting disk write or read failures?
Boot from a Live CD and run, as root, e2fsck -c /dev/sda1 (or
whichever disk is /)

> has anyone else tried to install the 2.6.35.8+oss image and headers?
> if so, any troubles/issues?

So far, no probs encountered here. Let me know about the disk integrity test.
... or re-install the packages to force rewriting of the grub files.
However, it shouldn't have touched anything to do with gdebi.

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