Re: Seeking advice on "monkey patching" a driver

2021-07-01 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 03:03:12PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 7/1/21 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Oh that's horrible, please no, do not do that :) > > Indeed it is, but it works, and it meets my main objective, which is to > allow the use of distribution kernel packages and modules. > > > How

Re: laptop iwlwifi suddenly not working

2021-07-01 Thread Connor Kuehl
Maybe there’s a hardware switch that toggles airplane mode? Might not be, since I’d think that would be kind of redundant if there’s a fn key dedicated to it, but I remember my previous laptops had a physical slider switch for airplane mode. Might be worth checking to see if your laptop has one

Re: laptop iwlwifi suddenly not working

2021-07-01 Thread jim . cromie
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:49 PM wrote: > > while fumbling to pause grub during boot, > I think I managed to disable the wifi. > and booting a live usb gets same result ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelne

laptop iwlwifi suddenly not working

2021-07-01 Thread jim . cromie
while fumbling to pause grub during boot, I think I managed to disable the wifi. its affecting distro kernel, and my own booting with iwlwifi.debug=0xff on command line shows me iwl_pcie_apm_init Init card's basic functions reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled) It is reading that from somewhere, b

Re: Seeking advice on "monkey patching" a driver

2021-07-01 Thread jim . cromie
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:03 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > > On 7/1/21 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Oh that's horrible, please no, do not do that :) > > Indeed it is, but it works, and it meets my main objective, which is to > allow the use of distribution kernel packages and modules. > > > How about a t

Re: Seeking advice on "monkey patching" a driver

2021-07-01 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 7/1/21 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: Oh that's horrible, please no, do not do that :) Indeed it is, but it works, and it meets my main objective, which is to allow the use of distribution kernel packages and modules. How about a third option, the correct one: - submit your code changes

Re: Seeking advice on "monkey patching" a driver

2021-07-01 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 11:25:49AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I maintain a couple of out-of-tree modules that enable "mainstream" > distributions to be used on the Thecus N5550 NAS. > > https://github.com/ipilcher/n5550/tree/master/modules > > The disk activity LEDs in this NAS are software con

Seeking advice on "monkey patching" a driver

2021-07-01 Thread Ian Pilcher
I maintain a couple of out-of-tree modules that enable "mainstream" distributions to be used on the Thecus N5550 NAS. https://github.com/ipilcher/n5550/tree/master/modules The disk activity LEDs in this NAS are software controlled, so the n5550_ahci_leds module exists to "inject" a wrapper arou

Re: kernel build error during ubuntu linux kernel build

2021-07-01 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 4:03 AM wrote: > > > Hello Alexander Kapshuk, > > Thanks for the reply. Following your advice, I installed `sudo apt install > zfs-dkms` ( it gave me this scary-looking warning below I just installed > it, because I’ll not distribute anything) > > It installs sources for zf