[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2041751] Re: RM: Remove dangerously insecure MPPE PPTP from Ubuntu

2024-04-26 Thread James Cameron
I'm upstream. I saw the removal first in the release notes. Yet I'm not surprised by removal. The contributions to pptp and pptpd have declined, so the release cadence has slowed as well (1.4.0 in 2013, but a few commits in git since). Number of people asking for help has also declined. Some

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1622293] Re: rtl8821ae WiFI does not work

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Summary; my own rtl8821ae frequent connection lost problem was fixed by upstream patch b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem") merged for 4.14-rc4. I've recently fixed a problem very much like the problems reported in this bug. In particular the loss of WiFi scan

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1618267] Re: RTL8821AE abruptly halts all network traffic

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Summary; my own rtl8821ae frequent connection lost problem was fixed by upstream patch b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem") merged for 4.14-rc4. I've recently fixed a problem very much like the problems reported in this bug; and during my tests I saw the cycling ping

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1707185] Re: I wish “Firmware Package” had the RTL8821AE wireless network adaptor driver.

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Dave, Lwfinger is Larry Finger, the maintainer of the rtl8821ae driver already in Ubuntu 16.04. When you used his GitHub driver, you had undone a change by Realtek, and that's why it worked. The Realtek change was 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues") and caused the connection loss.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1653012] Re: 10ec:8821 [Asus X555L] RTL8821AE doesn't work after some minutes.

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
This bug should close because the configuration has been disassembled, we can hardly expect hotellina to change the wireless card back to what it was just so that the bug can be solved. ;-) However, several of the problems in this bug were fixed by upstream patches, in particular b8b8b16352cd

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1691180] Re: linux: 4.4.0-79.100 -proposed tracker

2017-06-06 Thread James Cameron
For your interest, the package dropped the reiserfs module. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691180 Title: linux: 4.4.0-79.100 -proposed tracker Status in Kernel SRU

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1397976] Re: tty hangup regression in 3.13 kernel (trusty LTS)

2015-10-08 Thread James Cameron
The fix made in this bug broke production systems for me. Same symptom as in comment #4. Which bug is tracking the regression? Meanwhile, I downgrade kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.