[SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

tehkane · 2010-01-03 02:28:16

I just did a system upgrade which gave me the 2.6.32-ARCH Kernel. Problem is, the RT2860 wifi driver doesn't seem to play nicely with this kernel. I now have no network connection.

From what I can see, there doesn't seem to be a patch available for this? Which is why I want to revert back to my old kernel. I had a looksy at the ArchWiki page on downgrading packages but my problem lies with ...what packages do I need to downgrade?

Do I just 'pacman -rsn Kernel26 Kernel26-firmware Kernel26-headers' then install those three packages from my packman cache? How do I go about fixing modules and whatnot... OSS (sound system) complained about requiring the kernel header package. Do I also need to downgrade this?

Last edited by tehkane (2010-01-03 04:09:45)

jasonwryan · 2010-01-03 02:40:44

There is a thread on this issue http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86447

The driver works fine: 2.6.32 renamed the interface from ra0 to wlan0 - if you make the change in your network manager you won't need to downgrade the kernel.

tehkane · 2010-01-03 03:12:56

Well that was a hell of a lot easier to fix than I had thought

Thanks for the help.

jasonwryan · 2010-01-03 03:21:01

No problem - can you mark this solved?

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#1 2010-01-03 02:28:16

[SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

#2 2010-01-03 02:40:44

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

#3 2010-01-03 03:12:56

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

#4 2010-01-03 03:21:01

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

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