[nzlug] Ubuntu 7.10 installs SMP kernel

[Daniel Lawson]

> Last I heard, Ivo van Doorn, who maintains the driver, wasn't updating the
> old rt2400 driver for SMP kernels.
>
> If it isn't on the install CD, I can't access it. Rather than drag the PC
> around the house to the router, I'd rather just install a distro that works.
>
>
> My wireless "just worked" out of the box with Ubuntu 6.06......I was sorry
> they couldn't preserve that. There may be several drivers that only work
> with uni kernels and it might not be hard to add a loop to the install that
> checks for this, then either installs a uni kernel or notifies the user of
> the issue.
>
>   

You should be able to tell your kernel to boot as a uniprocessor one by
passing the kernel boot option 'nosmp' to it.

Or, you could take the ubuntu kernel package and rebuild it with SMP
disabled.