Is there a supported way of upgrading Ubuntu firmware/kernel
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:36 am
I have 2 Ubuntu installations Ubuntu MATE running 4.4.11-v7+, which is running well, and I intend to keep as 16.04 LTS.
I recently downloaded Ubuntu Server Standard 16.04 from https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/ . This is using 4.1.19-v7+, and I am having some problems with the inbuilt WiFi. I wondered if some of the firmware updates might help, but there seems to be no supported method of doing this.
I have learnt the hard way not to do dist-upgrade (it seems to work for Rasbpian, but not Ubuntu).
The recommended method seems to be rpi-update, but I have had unfortunate experiences with this, and heed the warning "In normal circumstances there is NEVER a need to run rpi-update as it always gets you to the leading edge firmware and kernel and because that may be a testing version it could leave your RPi unbootable". viewtopic.php?p=916911#p916911
I recently downloaded Ubuntu Server Standard 16.04 from https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/ . This is using 4.1.19-v7+, and I am having some problems with the inbuilt WiFi. I wondered if some of the firmware updates might help, but there seems to be no supported method of doing this.
I have learnt the hard way not to do dist-upgrade (it seems to work for Rasbpian, but not Ubuntu).
The recommended method seems to be rpi-update, but I have had unfortunate experiences with this, and heed the warning "In normal circumstances there is NEVER a need to run rpi-update as it always gets you to the leading edge firmware and kernel and because that may be a testing version it could leave your RPi unbootable". viewtopic.php?p=916911#p916911
