Internet USB problem on Jaunty? boot with your old kernel, it works.
If you've been using sudo modprobe usbserial vendor='Hex' product='Hex' to identify your USB device (Orange,Safaricom, or Zain) you may find some modems are not automatically id'ed by new Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' A workaround. If you upgrade (as I did), boot with your old kernel. It works! <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/350904> rgds, Alex
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
If you've been using sudo modprobe usbserial vendor='Hex' product='Hex' to identify your USB device (Orange,Safaricom, or Zain) you may find some modems are not automatically id'ed by new Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope'
A workaround. If you upgrade (as I did), boot with your old kernel. It works! <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/350904>
Booting with the old kernel doesn't affect the system at all? Can't the new kernel be recompiled to include the necessary modules from the old one? (Backwards compat). Ok, I am no Linux guy, so I am shooting in the dark. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
Wash, Linux has come a long way and Ubuntu, in particular, is "Linux for Human Beings.' All one needs to do is press Esc at startup menu, choose previous kernel then continue. Nothing like "out-of-this-world";) The good thing about Ubuntu version updates is that they retain several previous kernels versions such that one always has options on the kernel to boot from. rgds, 2009/4/29 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
If you've been using sudo modprobe usbserial vendor='Hex' product='Hex' to identify your USB device (Orange,Safaricom, or Zain) you may find some modems are not automatically id'ed by new Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope'
A workaround. If you upgrade (as I did), boot with your old kernel. It works! <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/350904>
Booting with the old kernel doesn't affect the system at all? Can't the new kernel be recompiled to include the necessary modules from the old one? (Backwards compat). Ok, I am no Linux guy, so I am shooting in the dark.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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2009/4/29 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
Booting with the old kernel doesn't affect the system at all? Can't the new kernel be recompiled to include the necessary modules from the old one? (Backwards compat). Ok, I am no Linux guy, so I am shooting in the dark.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, but one thing I've never let be done for me by a distro vendor, is a kernel upgrade. Always thought it's a bad idea. I always get "vanilla" source from kernel.org and compile it myself with whatever options I need (and sometimes have to patch it for something in particular). There's always the option of ensuring you keep your old kernel intact in case things don't work out, and edit your boot loader config to allow you to boot either the old or the new kernel. In Alex's case this is all being done automagically by the upgrade, if I'm not wrong. Booting the old kernel simply takes you back where you were before you started messing around with the system :) BR, S
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