Just discovered that BionicPup (64-bit) (Puppy 8.0) won’t run the HP Elitebook 2740p’s wifi either. modprobe’ing iwlwifi then iwldvm automatically brings in cfg80211 and mac80211 but, no WiFi shows in the network managers. Fedora 29 and Windows 10 can run WiFi on this computer.

Like the subject line says, EasyOS will not see/read a USB stick which was formatted ExFAT by Windows 10. Fedora 29 can.

Nope, no wifi in EasyOS 1.0.14 either. The stack
iwlwifi
iwldvm
cfg80211
mac80211

which works in Fedora 29 and Quirky Unicorn, does not work in EasyOS 1.0.14 on this HP Elitebook 2740p.

*edited 2740p not 2940p

Downloading 1.0.14 now, will try it. This is on a vintage-2010 HP EliteBook 2740p. On Quirky and Fedora 29 the wireless modules are iwlwifi, iwldvm, mac80211, cfg80211. Modprobe'ing these four into EasyOS 0.9.4, no wifi shows in the network setup app. Will try 1.0.14 presently and report back.

Uh...wait a minute...in Fedora, microcode is loaded during the initramfs...

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(***edited: I should've studied the readme that comes with the source to iucode-tool before I tried fixing this.***) I've deleted my wild guesses and rants which were formerly here. A few links and useful code snippets: Download the iucode-tool source: git clone https://gitlab.com/iucode-tool/iucode...

Thank you, Keisha!...Well done, Sherlock :) Urk. Not so fast. More like "No cigar, Clouseau..." Merely installing the intel-ucode .deb alone, evidently doesn't get the microcode actually installed. I'm studying the article https://www.pcsuggest.com/update-cpu-microcode-in-linux/ right now...

...I have three classes of intel CPUs older than 5 yrs that are all vulnerable and in that 'covered' list but the relevant microcode for none of them is in the 20180108 update... Ah...so it's a list of CPU's which Intel * promises * it can fix some of now and the rest Real Soon with microcode,...an...

The title of this thread, "It's official: Intel to only patch past 5 yrs chips ;-(" is mistaken, since Intel does seem to be making a good-faith effort to supply the necessary microcode to defend against Spectre, for processors older than five years. The Intel microcode update page ( https...

Does anyone know of a list or spreadsheet that shows machine make, model, year manufactured, CPU make and model, Kernels effected and other relevant data? A composite list? Thank you in advance. AMD and Intel issued more-or-less simultaneous public releases today at about 3PM New York time. I happe...

[Those were Google's conclusions, not mine...So either Google or Red Hat is wrong,... Sorry for blaming the messenger. Yes, there is a stark contradiction implied there, isn't there... Intel's shareholders probably will proceed with the legal actions which are already going forward, and those suits...

I have an AMD machine (A-series) that I can use, but for best security on that I'd have to shift away from my favourite Puppy distro to something with rolling updates to ensure all applications are Spectre-proofed, which would be a shame. Or wait for a Puppy to appear with an appropriately patched ...

A few very quick tests using the 4.14.11 32b PAE kernel (from peebee in the newest LxPupSc)..." According to https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301 it'll have a file /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pti_enabled if the pti patch has been applied to the kernel. The slowdowns and thermal throttling on I...

Short version: start Linux with pti=on in the kernel line of the bootloader. I don't see how that will help unless you're running a version of Linux with the patched kernel, which presumably almost none of us are. I can find no mention of the "pti" switch prior to these events, so I'd exp...

Well, I'll try to answer this; bear in mind, I am not an expert... My reading of all the news leads me to believe the short answer depends on whether you have an AMD or Intel CPU. The most succinct overview I have found is here: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/243486-meltdown-vs-spectre-what...

Another random thought, devices are getting smaller and smaller and have less surface area to disapate heat. This slows down CPUs. If this slows down the CPU enough then maybe it will run as slow as the rest of the components. The above benchmarks were run with Fedora's default Powersave governor. ...

8Geee wrote:based upon the previous post... is this something that can be added to extlinux_conf?

I use grub2 and it's been a long time since I used extlinux, but I imagine you can.

Hello all, long time no see. According to https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180102222354.qikjmf7dvnjgbkxe@alap3.anarazel.de you can do what the patchset will do by setting pti=on (pti = page table isolation) in the kernel line of the grub bootloader. At work I use a dual xeon e5-2696 v3, runni...