Problems with Updates

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:40:00 +0000, Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:20:21 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 5:40:55 pm Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:14:09 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
>>> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 2:55:59 pm Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
>>> >> How do I find out which updates were applied when on my system?
>>> >> Maybe I could narrow it down?
>>> >
>>> > Is this a Dell and did it have sound before the last kernel update?
>>> > I guess there were two weren't there, but the second one didn't fix
>>> > it either did it?
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a Dell Inspiron 1525 and sound still isn't working.  I've
>>> installed all the updates up to today's.
>> 
>> Okay then, your problem is the modem, look here
>> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04/Issues/
> Modem_Does_Not_Work
>> 
>> On the first instruction instead of 2.5.24-17 use your current kernel.
>> If you did the updates it should be 2.5.24-19 and use the instructions
>> for having 8.04 already installed.  Then after you download the modem
>> driver, in your terminal, BEFORE you do the sudo command, you need to
>> cd into the directory where ever you downloaded the file.  You should
>> now have your sound back!  I started trying to fix this last Friday
>> afternoon.  Didn't work on it over the weekend for obvious reasons.
>> Thought I'd tackle it again today and got it working this morning.
> 
> Does this really make sense.  This is Hardy as installed from the Ubuntu
> disks, not something from Dell.  Everything worked under Hardy, with the
> possible exception of the modem, since I didn't ever try it.  I never
> installed any modem drivers on this laptop.

Also, I looked at the modules, and the sound driver has the standard 
name. 


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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>

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