On 3/17/2018 11:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: > Folks, > Thus is no longer a thread about gnucash. Perhaps you could take it to > another venue. > David T. > > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 20:57, Adrien > Monteleone<[email protected]> wrote: Avoiding updating the kernel > can leave you with security vulnerabilities. Last summer there was a > bluetooth vulnerability that was patched and some patches for Spectre and > Meltdown have recently been released with more pending. > > There is a solution to rebuilding drivers, however, called DKMS (Dynamic > Kernel Module Support) Essentially, you install the dkms package first, then > create a small .conf file with the instructions to build the driver using the > modules instructions. You then copy the module files into the kernel source > tree directories and then install the module using dkms. From there on out, > each time you update the kernel, dkms will be called and it will re-compile > and install any modules you set up this way. (note, this is generally how the > custom drivers function of Ubuntu works. Virtualbox and Vmware also take > advantage of dkms so their kernel modules survive kernel updates) > > Instructions can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS > > If the RTL drivers that are pre-installed don’t seem to want to work with > your hardware, double check dmesg and look for any related warnings or errors > about not loading firmware. Some hardware requires proprietary firmware even > though the drivers are open-source. The message might even give you a web > address to download it from, but you can most likely easily find it by doing > a web search. All you have to do then is unpack the firmware and copy it to > the /lib/firmware directory. (on *buntu and Debian systems) This will survive > a kernel update as the firmware files don’t get zapped. (the driver is > already in the kernel anyway) > > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Mar 17, 2018, at 3:42 AM, DaveC49 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Jeffrey, >> >> I have been using Linux Mint which is a Debian/Ubuntu distribution for 4-5 >> years with no major problems. The interface is fairly easy to transition to >> from Windows particularly if prior to Windows 8. >> >> The RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express controller should work with the standard >> Ubuntu distribution drivers. It works fine on my AMD desktop with no >> inetrvention. >> >> Some wireless 802.11ac wireless usb adapters are not supported by the >> inbuilt drivers. The list of supported drivers is widening all the time and >> there are prefeerred adapters for use with Linux. I have a Netgear A6100 >> which is based on the Realtek 8811 chipset which is not supported by the >> inbuilt drivers. It uses an RTL8812 driver for which versions modified from >> Realteks sources for the Windows drivers for Linux need to be used . There >> are a number of repositories on Github which support drivers for chipsets >> which are not supported by the distribution's inbuilt driver (e.g. for RTL >> 8812 driver https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU). They are not very >> difficult to compile and install. Sorting out which drivers need to be used >> can be a bit confusing at first. Ubuntu maintains lists of USB adpaters, >> chipsets with some references to respositories but not always completely >> upto date. >> >> One way to simplify things is to avoid updating the kernel version as you >> generally have to rebuild the drivers with a new kernel version. It is >> generally better to stay with the Linux kernel version that the distriubtion >> you use is based on. Linux Mint has a default option to not install kernel >> updates to new versions automatically. Sometimes the kernel changes require >> the drivers to be patched particularly changes in the major and minor >> version numbers. This generally happens reasonably quickly on most driver >> repositories. I try to use repositories which are being updated fairly >> frequently like the above. When there is an enforced update as with the >> Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the kernel versions on which the >> distributions are based are usually patched fairly quickly. >> >> David >> >> >> >> ----- >> David Cousens >> -- >> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
I wish to thank all the people out there for their recommendations of which flavor of "Unix" to use. I will look into the various flavors after tax time. I finally managed to get Ubuntu to recognize the Ethernet port. So I am one step closer to ditching Windoze. Thank you to all who replied. --JEffrey Black M.B.A. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
