Kernel panic after using compat wireless and trying to get wireless card to work
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I have recently installed trisquel and like the interface and feel. It is very nice, and I want to get into learning about the command line and using non gui ways of completing tasks. So far this has been going a long. The problem I have is my wireless card. It is an Atheros one and I dont believe it is supported yet. I tried compat-wireless and it worked (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download). Everything worked fine at my house and i could turn the computer on and turn off and it still worked.
Today I went to my college, started the laptop and then it kernel panicked. The little speaker for sound was not showing, the sound stuttered for a while, stopped, and then i saw a screen that flashed and then the computer restarted.
I could not find any solution to my wireless problem and compat-wireless has proved to not be useful. The computer locks up right away and I cant try to uninstall it.
Does that mean i have to reinstall trisquel? What do you do if your wireless card is not currently support and might one day be?
Thanks
This "compat-wireless" stuff is an alternative Linux kernel (probably filled up with proprietary code), isn't it? You can probably start a Live system (for instance the Trisquel Live system you have used when installing the OS), download an image of Brigantia's kernel (here: http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/linux-image-3.0.0-17-generic ), 'chroot' to the install system and install the downloaded package with 'dpkg -i'... however you need to be motivated to learn the use of a terminal! If so, search the web for 'chroot' and list us the exact commands you plan to execute.
Otherwise, just reinstall. Anyway it can even be faster (assuming you have not had enough time to customize your system with many additional applications, etc.). Be careful with your data. If your /home is not on a separate partition, you need to backup them (using, again, a Live system).
As for hardware requiring non-free software, the recommendation is to switch to freedom-friendly hardware such as everything you can find on http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
Additionally, buying devices from the URL above (notice the "libre" part that is important) means donating to the Trisquel project 25% of the profits made on your purchase.
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