Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

[Sam Geeraerts]

Frederique W. Piccart schreef:
> So far my experience:
>
> Bad pointers:
> - Still have to press Fn + F5 to make wireless active each time I boot.

The wifi LED on mine comes on right before logon screen.

> - When browsing with Epiphany (just starting it and it begins to load),
> when on wireless, the kernel will panic. This will not happen for example
> when I'm running a stream on Rhythmbox, nor does any of this happen when I
> just use an Ethernet connection.

Epiphany works fine with wifi here.

> - Still no WPA/WPA2 listing in network-admin application, only WEP Hex and
> ASCII.

Confirmed. I can connect to my WPA network through nm-applet just fine, 
though.

> - Don't know if it's in an issue, but with the new wireless driver, for
> some reason during kernel boot, it renames the wireless connection to
> wlan1, each time.

Delete the wlanx rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and 
reboot.

> - When you press Fn + F2 now, the screen actually shuts off. Before it
> seemed as if it just blackened it and put the brightness on lowest point.

Fn+F2 does nothing for me.

> And a general question, a gnubie question really. Is there anyway to apply
> updates, without rebooting to have them in use? Sometimes I read on
> websites boasting about how GNU/Linux systems can even update the kernel,
> without having to reboot.

Ksplice can apply source code patches to a running kernel, but it's not 
something gnubies generally do. :) You need the kernel source code for 
it and I think it only works for small patches and only for a subset of 
the Linux subsystems (so not for going from 2.6.27 to 2.6.30).