Fixed

One of the less pleasant things about upgrading is the risk that new versions will break existing capabilities that you’re used to. Sometimes these are for-real regressions; others its just a case of codebases having moved on and unfortunately things not gelling together properly.

Upgrading my Linux kernel to >= 2.6.26 from 2.6.24 or so caused me two problems; the brightness controls for my screen were inverted, and the wireless networking applet suddenly stopped working!

Both of these bugs were resolved in the last two days! I’ve been very fortunate to have the help of some wonderful people. In one case it involved backporting an as-yet-unreleased bug fix in HAL, and in the other it was my kernel config lacking a necessary setting.

The details aren’t really important. The mutual support that is so often evident in Open Source communities like Gentoo Linux is. So to the inestimable Daniel Drake, “Sergey”, Ricardo Salveti, and all the others who helped me isolate and troubleshoot these problems, thank you very much!

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