What is the proper way to install the 3.4 kernel?
- by Marcelo Ruiz
Kernel 3.2 has an annoying error for my wireless card (rtl8192se-b) that makes the connection drop and/or prevents the card to make a connection to the wireless router. Dealing with it was very frustrating until I found out the bug was corrected in 3.4.
I downloaded:
linux-headers-3.4.0-030400_3.4.0-030400.201205210521_all.deb
linux-headers-3.4.0-030400_3.4.0-030400.201205210521_all.deb
linux-image-3.4.0-030400-generic_3.4.0-030400.201205210521_amd64.deb
and installed with: sudo dpkg -i *
Now the wireless works fine, but I have two problems that cannot solve.
The first one is minor: plymouth would not start at all. But if I boot with the 3.2 kernel it works fine.
The second one is serious: sometimes the computer won't shut down or reboot. The X server terminates but the computer shows part of my grub background and will stay there forever using 100% of the CPU.
I have a Toshiba Qosmio with an Core i7 and nvidia graphic card (using nvidia-current).
During one shutdown, I briefly read a message that said that the virtualbox module couldn't be unloaded from the kernel. I tried to solve this by removing and purging virtualbox and installing it back. I don't see the message anymore, but sometimes the computer won't shutdown nor reboot.
Am I missing something to properly configure the new kernels?
Thanks!
