Comment 90 for bug 162671

Joe and others,

I own a small netbook since some years with exactly this nice piece of hardware. After each upgrade it was the same messy thing to somehow get VIA's code compiling, loading and not breaking the system.

Then somehow I saw light at the end of the tunnel, as I noticed the driver is in staging now. I happily started to use kernel 2.6.32 and I started to forget about this issue.

Until today, when I noticed that after my upgrade to 12.04 my WLAN is gone again. sigh. Nightmares came back. How can this be, the kernel is now 3.2.x and slowly the community should make up its mind, do we support this crappy piece of hardware or not? I could accept a denial for this thingy, but please, do not make it first work, and then break it again...

Anyway, Joe, I followed your instructions, and they do not work for me. No error, compilation successful, driver loads (lsmod), but no reaction. No output, no eth1, its just stuck in the memory. Does anyone have an idea?

kind regards Florian