upgrade 13.0 to 13.1 udev question

[madmarv]

13.0.2a is rock solid and stable, but 13.1 causes intermittent failures in my wireless connection- the connection is lost and cannot reconnect, trying to reconnect manually gives a 'bad password' error (I use wpa2.) This is NOT a Salix issue, it occurs in every newer distro I've tried, whether Slack, Debian or Ubuntu based. So I've reinstalled 13.0.2a, and tried upgrading using the wiki instructions. Everything is great, except that upgrading udev breaks alsa. I googled and found the only solution seems to be to downgrade udev. So my question is, will this cause problems down the road? Should I content myself with 13.0.2a?

[gapan]

I would stay with 13.0 in your case. If it works, keep it like that.

[thenktor]

Sometimes it's really true: Never change a running system

[madmarv]

Thanks, guys. I did upgrade everything except for udev and all is working well for now. I'll run it for awhile and see what happens. Except for an external CD-RW drive and the occasional pen drive I don't have much I need udev for anyway. I don't use this machine for cameras or a scanner, not even a printer at the moment. If it goes whack later I'll post here to let others know-

[thenktor]

You can add udev to the slapt-get blacklist. But remember: If udev is to old for the kernel there could be problems.

[madmarv]

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough in the original post, I kept the 2.6.29.6 kernel from 13.0.2a since it is free of the wireless problems that have been dogging me for the last several years. So keeping udev that was shipped with that kernel should (I hope) cause no problems, unless I add new hardware (unlikely for this ancient hunk of junk.)

Thanks again for the input. If I do run into problems I'll be sure to post the info for others. I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this wireless problem, forums are full of similar complaints but no one seems able to get a handle on the cause. This is the only kernel I have found in the 2.6.x series that does not have a wireless issue on my hardware.

[thenktor]

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough in the original post, I kept the 2.6.29.6 kernel from 13.0.2a since it is free of the wireless problems that have been dogging me for the last several years. So keeping udev that was shipped with that kernel should (I hope) cause no problems, unless I add new hardware (unlikely for this ancient hunk of junk.)

Should work flawlessly.