My problem was resolved with an `aptitude dist-upgrade` which removed
some obsolete packages and allowed new things to get upgraded,
including a new kernel. I was being cautious with `aptitude upgrade`
and `aptitude safe-upgrade`, but now I see the value of dist-upgrade.
* Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> [120512 22:23]:
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 19:02:30 -0700, John Magolske wrote:
>
> > I'm running Sid on my ThinkPad X200s, and after an `aptitude upgrade`
> > the WiFi is experiencing intermittent problems. Pretty sure it's not the
> > hardware, as I've never experienced these issues before and this started
> > happening exactly after the upgrade.
> > [...]
>
> lsmod | grep iwlagn
>
> Wifi driver modules usually depend on others and you have to remove all
> of them to satisfy their dependencies and they can be unloaded
> successfully (as root, "modinfo iwlagn | grep depends" will tell you more
> about this).
Thanks for the tip. Not sure what this would've looked like before the
dist-upgrade state...but now it's like so:
% lsmod | grep iwlagn
% modinfo iwlagn | grep depends
depends: mac80211,cfg80211
% modinfo iwlagn | grep -A 1 filename
filename:
/lib/modules/3.2.0-2-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
alias: iwlagn
... looks like iwlagn is now an alias to the iwlwifi module, which has
replaced iwlagn as of Linux 3.2. In any case, WiFi is working fine now.
> > % uname -a
> > Linux ... 2.6.38-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 24 15:10:58 UTC
> > 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> (...)
>
> Mmm, why is that you are using such an old kernel? :-?
As mentioned above, I'd been neglecting to do a dist-upgrade, so some
old obsolete packages were preventing the install of a new kernel,
only allowing it if 440 packages could be removed. After doing a
`dist-upgrade` i was able to install 3.2.0-2-686-pae with no fuss,
and things are working fine now.
Regards,
John
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