[ubuntu-in] Interested in hearing about ser experiences about Karmic Koala (9.10)

[Vishal Rao]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Onkar Shinde wrote:
> >>> - network manager is gone I do not see it on the panel.
> >>
> >> May be it is not gone form panel but the icon is something you are not
> >> familiar with so you can not recognize it.
> >> Or may be the applet got uninstalled for some reason and you should
> >> try installing network-manager-gnome package.
> >>
> >
> > The applet for some reason is not installed by default. Indicator applet
> and
> > notification area are the ones to install (figured after trying out
> different
> > applets). I guess this happens when you upgrade or do a fresh install
> with the
> > same /home folder. But all is good now.
> >
> >>> - Kernel hangs when I try to enable broadcom proprietary drivers so
> probably I
> >>> can not use wireless on my laptop. (people still use broadcom isn't it
> ?).
> >>> Probably will open a bug for it.
> >>
> >> Which card is it? I have broadcom 4306. I am wondering if I should
> >> hold off upgrade to karmic.
> >
> > The card is Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN
> Controller.
> > The kernel hung once and oopsed second time but seems to be working now
> dunno if
> > it would be stable.
>
> IIRC this chipset now has partially open source drivers. I believe you
> need to install  bcmwl-kernel-source package.
>
>
>
Have all of you guys all upgraded? I usually do fresh installs each time,
and this time too it seems to be stable bcm 4312 (HP tx1302 tablet PC) I've
done updates for about 1 hr worth of downloads - stable for me...
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