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
