From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:09:51 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
      
   > Yep, I've noticed several people on Reddit have had trouble with Linux   
   > Mint when upgrading to the 6.17 kernel. The Linux Mint developers   
   > flopped on this one. Fortunately it's easy to drop back to 6.14 or 6.8   
   > (which is what I'm still using on the 22.x computers). The 21.x computer   
   > (my main one) is still at the 5.15 kernel. Works well. This is why I'm   
   > not much for "cutting edge."   
      
   For me it was the Broadcom driver and dkms.   
      
   https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/broadcom-sta/broadcom-   
   sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2_all.deb   
      
   works. After installing it dkms rebuilds the broadcom_sta module for the   
   6.17 kernel and on reboot the new kernel is in place. Mint and other   
   Ubuntu distros don't do well with Broadcom. I don't have ethernet so for   
   the initial install I use a Panda USB wifi dongle. I think it's mediatek   
   but it is recognized. Once up the Driver Manager will load a Broadcom   
   driver. In this case a working driver (with 6.14) was installed so it   
   didn't look for a new one.   
      
   It seems some Macs use Broadcom too. The r/linux_on_mac subreddit has more   
   unhappy campers than r/linuxmint.   
      
   What I wasn't able to do was to get rind of the 6.17 package so it   
   wouldn't try to rebuild on every update. 'apt remove kernel...' and 'apt   
   purge kernel...' might work but it's a little ambiguous when it starts   
   talking about linux-kernel-generic .   
      
   The Ubuntu box has been a 6.17 for a while but it has a MediaTek. The two   
   boxes at 6.18 have Intel and Qualcomm. Broadcom has always been a pain in   
   the ass.   
      
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