[Debian-eeepc-devel] WARNING regarding 2.6.26

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Fri Aug 29 08:54:53 UTC 2008


-=| Andrew Williams, Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:41:25AM +0100 |=-
> 2008/8/28 Robert Epprecht <epprecht at solnet.ch>:
> > Today kernel version 2.6.26 has reached Lenny. This causes problems for
> > EeePCs regarding WIFI, ACPI (and maybe other stuff). The developer team is
> > working on the issue. If you plan to install Debian to your Eee you are
> > advised to delay that until the issue is cured. Same is true for kernel
> > (and module) upgrades.
> >
> 
> I assume I can do some APT pinning to stop myself accidently upgrading
> to 2.6.26? Something like:
> 
> Package: kernel-image
> Pin: version 2.6.26*
> Pin-Priority: -1
> 
> Is that right?

May be. Pinning is always tricky (to me) :)

Just remove linux-image-2.6-686 package and make sure 
linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 is still installed.

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