On Friday 14 November 2008 12:24:06 Scott Robbins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:10:40PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Yes, this may be a kernel issue, because wireless worked when I installed
> out of the box, but the cabled connection didn't. It may be that I have
> to go back to the original kernel and manage without cabled altogether
> for the present. That could be one solution. I will alter the number of
> kernels kept (I can't remember, off-hand where that is, but I'm sure
I'll
> find it).
>
>
>
> Is there any way to make an older kernel the default boot?
Yes, there's a line in /boot/grub/menu.lst towards the top. Usually it
reads Default=0 (or something similar--writing this from a BSD machine
so can't check the exact syntax.)
0 is the first entry, 1, the second, etc.
Just change the default to read 1 if you want to boot the older kernel,
which should be the second in the list of possible entries.
OK, thanks. That's what I needed to know. It used to be so in lilo :-)
If I get no further today I'll try that for a day or two, just buying time,
really. I have exactly two weeks to get a working distro, fedora or not. And
oddly enough I do have a life out side this :-)
Assuming (which I'm only doing because you mentioned Linpus) that
it's
the Aspire One, it's odd that wired isn't working.
It wasn't with that one kernel (from snapshot 3, I think it was). The next
kernel install got the wired working - and stopped the wireless working. It's
never worked since.
The only
distribution that gave me trouble with wired out of the box was CentOS,
due to an older version of the kernel driver. (There were workarounds,
detailed in my article on the CentOS wiki.)
Hrrm, I don't think I've tried wired and NM with it though.
Also, just for what it's worth (I don't know about NM) the 2.6.27
kernels typically refer to that card as wlan0 while the earlier kernels
that use the MadWifi driver will call it ath0.
Yes, I realise that.
I've only had my wireless automatically set as eth1 with Intel
2100
(although it's probably true for the 2200 as well) card. Again, this
is leaving NM out of the equation though, coming from the BSDs I'm just
more comfortable doing it by hand.
This laptop has Intel 2200, and yes, it's eth1.
Anne