Ubuntu - Intrepid Ibex (8.10)

January 14, 2009 Posted by mitch | ubuntu | 0 Comments

I held off for a couple months and just upgraded my laptop to 8.10, only to find out the wireless is still having issues. I have the Intel 4965AGN mini-pci express, and its really not supported in 8.10 with known issues. All of which are a pain. And a new one I didn't recognize before... Network-Manager will not work on a WPA2-Enterprise network... I've added notes to a bug report regarding the issue... but nothing so far.

However, even with installing the backports modules that is recommended on thinkwiki and other places. It still seems far less stable than 8.04. However, I thought I'd try something else instead of rolling back yet again.... I installed the 2.6.28 kernel from the upcoming Jaunty Jackalope release. While it hasn't fixed my issues with WPA2-Enterprise, it has made 8.10 more stable overall for me. And for that, I will stay on Intrepid Ibex until Jaunty goes beta 2 or so.