Philippe Vouters privately related success of his Intel-536-537 package with a 2.6.31 kernel, including FAX service Particular kernels may however require additional work. MarvS On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm glad things are now working for you. I had needs which pushed me to newer > kernels. (Later versions of OO 3.x were only compiled and tested with later > kernels and I needed some of the features the later versions had.) > > If you have access to a high speed Internet connection and intend to do any > document writing, I humbly suggest you download and install Lotus Symphony > from IBM. It's a much better word processing package, though it does lack > some OO features. > > > On Friday 09 October 2009 11:42:05 am denbigh1974@xxxxxxx wrote: >> Roland Hughes wrote: >> ALERT: >> >> Previous poster did not read the post in its entirety nor did they offer >> any additional advice. >> >> The post in question ended with: >> >> >> Revert to your -11 kernel, turn off automatic updates, wait at least a >> year. >> >> >> The "experimental" advice being offered up as correct in a different >> message: >> >> >> The key question is of course, do you absolutely need kernel 2.6.28-15? >> This is an insisting question to a novice: the file which you have >> installed for your modem needs to be generated for 2.6.28-15, which is >> not straightforward for a novice, even may seem frightening the first >> time you do it. Some people believe that they always need the last >> version, immediately. Some think that what counts is to be able to do >> their work (I belong to that second category, since 1961: take a look at >> http://cern.ch, see what frontier science is doing, most of us using >> kernel 2.6.9, soon moving to 2.6.18 , not 28, not 31, because we have >> other concerns than "having the most recent one"). >> >> Thanks for your advice. Just to let you know that I am booting up now into >> 2.6.28-11 by default. I'll stay away from upgrading until I have more >> confidence in my knowledge of Ubuntu >> > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 (cell) > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.logikalsolutions.com >
