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A few days ago I reported a strange issue with an old laptop after installing 12.04. I now know this is a problem with the kernel module presently supporting 12.04 (3.8), since with kernel 3.2 the laptop behaves regularly (booting Debian Wheezy).

Knowing that 12.04 was initially released with kernel 3.2, I would like to try that first version on this laptop, but presently one can only download 12.04.3. So the question is to either obtain the first 12.04 release or revert 12.04.3 back to kernel 3.2.

Thanks.

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Luís de Sousa
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To install the Linux 3.2 kernel, install the linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic package. Then follow the steps here.

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Ramchandra Apte
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There are possible two ways to get linux-kernel 3.2.x

  • Since you can download only 12.04.3 from official site, one way is to download Ubuntu 12.04 searching the torrents. If you don't get, I'll create one for you, I've Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.04.2 images of x86 and x64 bits.

  • You can install Kernel 3.2.x from repository. Just search : Linux 3.2 in Synaptic you'll get a list of kernels from there you can install Kernel 3.2.x

Reply if you need further assistance..

Saurav Kumar
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You can install the original 12.04. Search here, at the bottom of the page: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

With that, you can update and Ubuntu will keep the 3.2.x kernel.

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