Will 8.42 support kernel 2.6.23?

[givemesugarr]

for me 8.40 worked with 2.6.23. the only problem was installing madwifi on 2.6.23 and amd64.
so until i won't be able to install the madwifi with the new 2.6.23 i don't think that i'll switch to it.

i hope that the issues that showed up with amd64 in the last 8.41 have been corrected, since i don't really want to do strange things to be able to install it, or i'd hate to wait for a lot of months for a new release...

[lone_wolf]

I think that is what I did then. I was using cut and paste instead of directly downloading them. I will try it again by downloading them directly.

Thanks... Though it was odd that people were posting that they both worked, while others were saying they were having issues.

[givemesugarr]

Though it was odd that people were posting that they both worked, while others were saying they were having issues.

i

think that there are some differences between systems,distros and boards.
for example it may happen that a x200m made by fujitsu and one made by toshiba on two different archs, lets say one amd turion 64x2 with amd64 and one with a centrino 1 x86 with the same distro installed may behave differently. for example my amdcc for windows could set 256mbs of videoram, while linux is limited to 128, on my gentoo x86_64 the 8.41 fails to compile due to old stdlibc++3 failures but work on a opensuse 10.3 i586.
so as you can see it's very natural for something like this to happen. i would personally say in the patch's first line:

"this patch may apply and work or simply it may not apply or not work"
i've seen many things like this to happen.

[lone_wolf]

did not see that line in the patch....

I am upgrading to opensuse 10.3, I have other issues beyond the ATI drivers. The reason I went for the 2.6.23.1 kernel was the wireless support. But I think that 10.3 has the drivers included in it and is using the 2.6.22 kernel. Which should give me a stable system.