From: Richard Watson <waty@bigpond.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:43:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132749800.14979.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051122013603.GA28384@princeton.edu>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:20:10AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
> > Hi - I just upgraded my kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to
> > kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2. So far I have no sound (Alsa) or
> > wireless connectivity (ipw2100). Do I need to re-emerge the relevant
> > packages? And if I do will this remove the functionality from the old
>
> yes. no.
>
> You need to recompile the kernel modules against the new kernel for
> them to work. And /lib/modules is protected so that recompiling kernel
> modules for new kernels won't remove the modules for the old kernel.
> (Hint: there is a reason that /lib/modules has subdirectories numbered
> by kernel versions.)
>
> > kernel. I can boot the old kernel fine with sound and everything.
>
> HTH,
>
Thanks .. A really good explanation for a novice (as in me). Richard
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2005-11-21 23:20 [gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity Richard Watson
2005-11-22 1:36 ` Willie Wong
2005-11-23 12:43 ` Richard Watson [this message]
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