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If anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
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I have the same notebook (2019 edition) with Arch linux; everything is fine except audio, which won't work (basically the mic). Since I run every week or second into trouble after upgrading, I already thought about changing the distribution to something more stable, like Ubuntu/Debian. But I doubt my mic will work there :-(
Probably is just a config issue: for some reason this morning the wrong mic was selected as default and the update may have played a role since I don't remember changing it myself, but a quick look at pavucontrol solved the problem. PS: I'm using Arch Linux on a Lenovo too, but not a thinkpad.
If anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
I just got a thinkpad x1 carbon and have similar issues with the intel chipset for wifi and audio with newer kernels as well. Only thinkpad over ever had issues with .
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I just got a thinkpad x1 carbon and have similar issues with the intel chipset for wifi and audio with newer kernels as well. Only thinkpad over ever had issues with .
I have the same notebook (2019 edition) with Arch linux; everything is fine except audio, which won't work (basically the mic). Since I run every week or second into trouble after upgrading, I already thought about changing the distribution to something more stable, like Ubuntu/Debian. But I doubt my mic will work there :-(
If this is yours (Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7), there's a very recent fix that you can find there. It's a bit of a hassle, but should work across more than just Arch based distros
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Because if you're a competent enough programmer to contribute to the Linux kernel, you're probably competent enough to get a job as a programmer.
I believe that by "salaried employees" it was meant as "people that have linux kernel programming" in the job description.
Intel 10,833 13.1%
none 6,819 8.2%
Red Hat 5,965 7.2%
If anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
5.5: broken i915 5.6: broken iwlwifi 5.7: ...
I hope wireguard improves it’s tooling. It feels a bit crude for me.
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As an open source maintainer, I can tell you that we appreciate the small fixes and updates that come from people just getting their feet wet. Even little things like spelling mistakes, or fixing a bug in an infrequently used command line option go a long way towards a better overall product.
As an open source user and (in the past, contributor), I wholeheartedly agree with that. The fact that a software has no bugs is what makes it a product I can rely on. For example, I'm a KDE user since 20 years. And although it has come a long way, there's always this little bug here or there. Because of that , I can't recommend it to some non IT user who's going to use it alone, I can't 100% trust it. So OP is right…
When people prefer Windows over Linux, or macOS over Windows, or Linux over macOS, it's often because they don't want to exchange their well-known set of bugs for an exciting and unknown new set of bugs.
If anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
You may already do this, but bugs like these are the reason I usually recommend having two kernels. The "oh crap did the latest release break X" is a lot easier to test if you can just reboot into the LTS kernel.
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I believe that by "salaried employees" it was meant as "people that have linux kernel programming" in the job description.
Yes, I think you're right. In that case, it certainly wasn't the case back when Linux started. Intel and Redhat are the biggest contributors according to the Linux Kernel Development Report from 2017: Intel 10,833 13.1% none 6,819 8.2% Red Hat 5,965 7.2% So, "none", although it's the second biggest category, only accounts for 8.2% of contributions.