[linux] Open Source Software for Research and Fleet Management

[Katherine Mcmillan]

Hello all,

I have been looking at some Open Source Tracking software (for legal purposes 
such as business land fleet management, tracking of public health 
transportation vehicles, and approved research drone work). I stumbled upon an 
interesting group of Canadian Veterans who are completing their advanced drone 
pilot licenses for second careers - very cool from multiple perspectives. If 
anyone here is a Canadian Veteran and is interested in this, please feel free 
to contact me privately and I can tell you more about them.  If you already 
know METAR/TAF you're really golden (for example, I have my full ground school 
completed for my private pilot's license and this is apparently quite overkill).

I found a decent list of options for open source GPS-based tools 
(https://www.goodfirms.co/gps-tracking-software/blog/best-free-open-source-gps-tracking-software)
 and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with these or other open source 
software for GPS-based tracking?  If so, would you consider giving an OCLUG 
presentation please?

Thank you,
Katie

[linux] Fwd: RTL8822BE not working after suspend

[James]

I forgot but was someone having trouble with an RTL8822 not working at 
the last meeting?

The repo is: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: RTL8822BE not working after suspend
Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2023 10:55:42 -0500
From:   Larry Finger 
To: Utkarsh Verma 
CC: linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org, James 



On 6/6/23 20:04, Utkarsh Verma wrote:

I have a small request from my side as a user. Please mention on the
GitHub repo that these drivers are not in the kernel yet and will be
merged around Linux 6.5. This is because I stumbled upon this repo a
couple of times before as well, but I did not trust it enough and even
thought that they might be older than the kernel's drivers.

Additionally, is there any way we can have this working without the
systems module loading/unloading shenanigans? I would love to see this
work by default, as it does on Windows. I can help you with the driver
testing if you wish.


I could make it more clear in the README.md that the rtw88 repo has code 
that will be in a future kernel, but that information is available in 
the git logs. I cannot help your trust issues!


The problems with your BIOS that require unloading and reloading the 
driver when suspending or hibernating are found only in some HP or 
Lenovo laptops. It is beyond my capability to fix the actual bug, thus 
we give you a workaround. What does the Windows driver actually do to 
overcome this problem? As none of us have seen that code, we have no idea!!


What harm is there in running the unload/restore script? On my laptop, 
it is totally transparent except for a few extra lines in the log.


Larry