Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Date: 18 Jul 2026 20:28:54 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <112ncdq$5nuq$1@dont-email.me> <113e147$31u9i$1@dont-email.me> <113g0hv$3jspa$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net e02YzFwmP4ySg0gAsFDwXwdymWTEUt2app7yaqkFmC/4kgH4RV Cancel-Lock: sha1:YzCjCGv2khunPV9S3+UCQmp4rwQ= sha256:6PXx7iQHQNKx4HZawLsEIGo4CVP96GeQIPQWMtBN8sU= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:88888 On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:54:06 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > Fortunately Nvidia' s closed source drivers generally worked, Broadcom > wifi seems now to work out 'of the box'. The netbook is old. For an install I use a USB wifi dongle. The last distro i installed was Mint and once it was running the DriverManager pulled down the driver and life was good. Then the kernel updateed to 7. Or I should say it tried but dkms failed when it tried to build the init and it reverted to the previous kernel. The driver manager didn't show an update but I was able to get a new driver. Oddly the people with older Macs had the same issue and I think that's where I found the source for the new one. Probably any computer from this decade is okay.