With the Wheezy kernel, I've experienced serious problems in WiFi support because of the iwlwifi driver for Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300. For quite a while, I've been running kernels from the Debian experimental server, various little things would break from time-to-time. The wireless networking has been good since 3.4, but in 3.7.1 I was having some serious sound problems. After suspends, the sound was "choppy" and full of distortion in any kind of video (youtube, mplayer, etc). Some Googling confirmed these problems and I found a thread (including discussion of a patch written by Linus Torvalds) indicating that the sound problems were fixed after 3.7.1.
Awesome news. Reports were right. Everything is working "right now" (cautious!). Two days ago I updated the kernel to 3.7.3.1, more precisely: $ uname -a Linux pols-124 3.7-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 x86_64 GNU/Linux and it is a big improvement. I'm able to join ordinary WiFi networks (WPA2) as well as the Enterprise wireless network, including the multi-university "Eduroam" system. So, in case you are having WiFi trouble with Intel devices that use iwlwifi or have the "choppy" sound problem, I'm testifying that 3.7.3.1 from Experimental has the magic potion. Here's one other piece of happy news about the kernel. On my laptop, battery life is longer. I'd guess battery life is 10-20 longer. I don't know if this is caused by differences in cpufrequency or what, but there's some noticeable difference. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caerodj-xnug4iopajp-q8zczp83_g-rw6wdur3c6rcwtryz...@mail.gmail.com
