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  1. Bug #836250
  2. Comment #149

Comment 149 for bug 836250

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Olaf Geibig (olafgeibig) wrote : Re: [Oneiric] [Regression] Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 poor networking, packet loss and very slow Lenovo X201 and T500 laptops

Probably I'll never understand these ubuntu kernel packages and how they relate. If I take a look at the changelog of yesterdays updates to my machine via 'apt-get changelog linux-image-generic' you can see the changelog entry which caught my attention:

linux-meta (3.0.0.16.19) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * Add compat-wireless v3.2 meta package
    - LP: #918351

As I look at it now I noticed that the changelog actually belongs to a package called linux-meta:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/canonical_kernel_team/oneiric/main/base/linux-meta

From the description: This package is just an umbrella for a group of other packages, it has no description.
Description samples from packages in group: -Backported wireless drivers for generic kernel image ...

This probably explains why I got the backported drivers although I have NOT installed linux-backports-cw or any other backports. I checked it with 'dpkg -l |grep backport'. Probably worth to say is that I have installed linux-firmware which is mentioned in the compat-wireless package.