Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22
Today's update (Jun 19, 2008) to ================ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22 2.6.22-15.54 Published in gutsy-updates 9 hours ago Published in gutsy-security 22 hours ago linux-source-2.6.22 (2.6.22-15.54) gutsy-security; urgency=low [Colin Ian King] * usb-storage: always set the allow_restart flag - LP: #193154 [Upstream Kernel Changes] * [IA64] Fix unaligned handler for floating point instructions with base update * CVE-2007-6694: [POWERPC] CHRP: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference * vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need it (CVE-2008-0007) * fix SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk() (CVE-2008-1669) * Fix dnotify/close race (CVE-2008-1375) * [TCP]: secure_tcp_sequence_number() should not use a too fast clock * hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow * netdrvr: natsemi: Fix device removal bug -- Ben Collins <email address hidden> Mon, 19 May 2008 23:03:41 +0000 Available diffs * 2.6.22-14.52 to 2.6.22-15.54 (2.3 MiB) ============ Completely removed the Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver that was installed on a laptop that I updated today. Machine reboots to 2.6.22-15.54 (generic) and I notice that the Dynex PCMCIA wireless adapter isn't lighting up... at all. Check the System|Administration|Restricted... and find that the Broadcom 3rd party driver is no longer activated. Click the little box to activate and what pops up... click to load from a local file, or from the 3rd party url at www.whatever. Well, I've no clue where the local file might be on this machine so I click to load from www.whatever, only to realise that in order to do this I need a working network connection. So I end up taking the laptop to a wire, downloading the driver again via wired, and then reboot... all is well again. However, had I not been able to connect via a wire, I would have been dead in the water following the update reboot. I find it unacceptable that a kernel update requires a wired connection to restore the existing installed 3rd party wireless drivers. ** Affects: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 2.6.22-15.54 update removes 3rd party wireless drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
