Unnecessary rant - Was: Re: USB networking in Ubuntu

Matt Margush matt at margush.com
Thu Aug 7 05:15:06 CEST 2008


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Yes, there is another way to get this issue unfortunately too.  We moved
> ~ USB over Ethernet support on the Freerunner into a module.  But, it's
> commonly written around that folks should update their kernel by DFU.
> This was never a good idea for a modular kernel (it does nothing to
> update the modules) and now it's a really bad idea.
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> If you update your kernel by the packaging from inside the Freerunner it
> won't make this problem as it updates the modules at the same time

How do I update my kernel by the packaging from inside the Freerunner?

Thanks,

Matt




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