Exactly how close to completly working is 8.10

Pretty much as the title really guys. Ive been running hardy for a while on my aspire one and am very pleased with how its running. I am thinking of upgrading to 8.10 but was wondering exactly what will / wont work if i opt to upgrade from hardy to 8.10?

Thanks

 

Nothing should break - everything I tried that worked for me under Hardy works for me under Intrepid. Of course, YMMV. You'll either need to compile a working set of the madwifi modules for yur kernel or grabs the linux-backports-modules package for your Intrepid kernel and blacklist the ath_pci driver.

 

can i just recompile the madwifi drivers i have been using under hardy ?

 

Sure. Will they work? Probably (there may be others here who know for sure)

 

I work with the latest madwifi driver (from 4 December) and that one works nicely.

 

I've been using Intrepid pretty much since release, and have noticed the following:

* With MadWiFi drivers, wireless OK except after sleep.
* Card readers work on both sides (hot swappable) except for MS Pro Duos.
* Haven't tried hibernate mode,

 

To 'fix' wireless problems after suspend, just:

sudo rmmod ath_pci
sudo modprob ath_pci

 

I have just upgrade to 8.10 and it works great for mee expect the problem:

* With MadWiFi drivers, wireless OK except after sleep.

That is for me a serious problem, because i use very often the spleeping function.

And the solution described above is a good work around but that couldn't be a final solution. Its very difficult to explain my wife that she must do:

sudo rmmod ath_pci
sudo modprob ath_pc

after wake up the aspire

I think we have to wait a little bit.

cheers
Stefan

 

Using sickboy's updated kernel (near the top of this sub-forum) fixed the issue for me - worth a shot.

 

@bobmitch

As well with the madwifi driver? I thought that the kernel just work with the backports ath5 module. That would be great for me, if the kernel from sickboy works together with the madwifi driver and under intrepid?

Short feedback will be wonderful.

Thanks and regards
Stefan

 

Don`t know about that. I was using the latest madwifi snapshot before using sickboy's kernel, but now that I`m using it, and everything works, I haven`t had the need to try the madwifi driver again.

 

So, i just install the kernel of Sickboy and switch back to the madwifi driver. It works, i just had to recompile the driver in the new kernel. For me is the madwifi driver a bit more stable. But the problem after resuming is sadly the same :?
I hope that a solution for that will be availabel soon.
Regards
Stefan

 

Thanks for the fine work around. I have put this commands into a shell script and copy it as an executalbe script into the directory /etc/pm/sleep.d/ that starts scripts after sleep resuming.

Works great!

Thanks and regards
Stefan