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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by GazL
......I'm starting to think George R. Martin has the right idea: just stick to DOS and Wordstar 4.0 and write off anything post 1990 as a bad dream..........(
Agreed. For things that have to get done (vs. entertaining oneself) I would be perfectly happy with DOS, DesqView, WordPerfect 4.1 (or was it 4.2), Qmodem and a few others that don't immediately come to mind.
Agreed. For things that have to get done (vs. entertaining oneself) I would be perfectly happy with DOS, DesqView, WordPerfect 4.1 (or was it 4.2), Qmodem and a few others that don't immediately come to mind.
I still got a machine (486/dx2) with WP 6.0, MS-Word 6.0 (running in WfW 3.11), dBase 5 and SuperCalc 5.1 spreadsheet.
Don't use it much anymore, but everything still works, including my self-written database program in TurboPascal 3.0
It normally evens networks (LAN only and no server functions) but I currently have a problem with the network card for which I will have to open the case - the card probably moved a bit when I inserted the tape drive adaptor).
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You may want to wait for the 5.6.1 kernel.
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Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Networking on 30 March 2020 at 06:26 AM EDT. 8
.....you will want to hold off on the new Linux 5.6 kernel for the moment if you use the Intel "IWLWIFI" WiFi driver......
It would seem to me that this is a major blunder (serious mistake) and would warrant a 5.6.1 fix as soon as possible, but I don't see that anything is being done. But, OTOH, what do I know.
Last edited by cwizardone; 03-30-2020 at 11:57 AM.
Has anyone tried 5.6 stable yet, along with nvidia drivers? Just built it locally, basing from slackware's generic config, although nvidia kernel module fails to build.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2020, Round 21
Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Thursday, 2 April 2020, at approximately 09:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime late Wednesday or early Thursday (depending on your time zone).
There will be 23 patches in the 5.6.1 update, 170 in 5.5.14 and 155 in the 5.4.29 update.
Has anyone tried 5.6 stable yet, along with nvidia drivers? Just built it locally, basing from slackware's generic config, although nvidia kernel module fails to build.
Tested it myself on 5.6 stable and it works just fine in my case with this patch applied. Still.... it would probably be better to wait for an official driver from NVIDIA.
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 07:51:52AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:06:16PM -0400, Woody Suwalski wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I think you have missed the
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...11dc0a3c2fd240
>
> It should come in soon, in another release or so, when the next set of
> networking patches get sent to me.
And also didn't hit Linus's tree until after this set of -rc patches
went out, so it's not like I missed it or anything
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Year 2020, Round 22
Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Friday, 3 April 2020, at approximately 16:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime late Thursday or early Friday (depending on your time zone).
There will be 10 patches in the 5.6.2 update, 30 patches in the 5.5.15 update, 27 in 5.4.30, 116 in 4.19.114, 148 in 4.14.175, 102 in 4.9.218 and, finally, 91 patches in the 4.4.218 update.
The original patch didn't copy the ieee80211_is_data() condition
because on most drivers the management frames don't go through
this path. However, they do on iwlwifi/mvm, so we do need to keep
the condition here.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce2e1ca70307 ("mac80211: Check port authorization in the ieee80211_tx_dequeue() case")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <>
Cc: Woody Suwalski <>
Signed-off-
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