Kernel 3.12-rc7 now available at kernel.org

[QDR06VV9]

No problem. We're all friends in +1. Consider us as 'Dutch Uncles'. We won't bite you... LoL!

Thanks!! Maybe great uncle for me!(age)

BTW, that custom 3.12-rc7 kernel worked a treat on my lappy -- flying like the wind.

Peppermint dev indicated that several users have told him, the 3.11 kernel solved a lot of bugs -- peeked his interest IMO.

I *think* 3.12 is even better. It solved a problem I was having  on_the_road with the AT&T wifi system, 
at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio  where I was staying.

Could not agree more I have a Hp DV2700Se with the dreaded broadcom wireless adapter but kernel 3.12 installed it out the box.(Yeah)

[ventrical]

@ runrickus

You are a great encourager. Much needed in these forums. Compiling a kernel is somewhat like composing a symphony (or actually performing one). It's about timing, structure, forms, colours, syncopation, multitasking and building a carousell of sound from beginning to ending. Using a works by Mozart, Beethoven, Greig or whomever, is a good way to contrast descriptions when paralleling them to compiling kernel formats. Although we are working with machines that may not allow us to improvise in the same way, let's say, on a piano for instance, the kernel can still be modified to perform as if it had been improvised - because improvised music, discordant, consonant or disonant is always perfectly beautiful and unified by it's point and counterpoint and such then as a programmer interjects to experiements with an alternate set of code, even though it has to follow a strickter set of rules, can still bring it to discovery of new colours , functions and processes that echo structures of the musical form.



regards..

[ventrical]

Thanks!! Maybe great uncle for me!(age)

BTW, that custom 3.12-rc7 kernel worked a treat on my lappy -- flying like the wind.

Peppermint dev indicated that several users have told him, the 3.11 kernel solved a lot of bugs -- peeked his interest IMO.

I *think* 3.12 is even better. It solved a problem I was having  on_the_road with the AT&T wifi system, 
at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio  where I was staying.

Could not agree more I have a Hp DV2700Se with the dreaded broadcom wireless adapter but kernel 3.12 installed it out the box.(Yeah)

Same here on my Acer Extensa 4420. What a pain. I am doing a fresh install now of trusty - soon to install the new kernel .

[QDR06VV9]

@ runrickus

You are a great encourager. Much needed in these forums. Compiling a kernel is somewhat like composing a symphony (or actually performing one). It's about timing, structure, forms, colours, syncopation, multitasking and building a carousell of sound from beginning to ending. Using a works by Mozart, Beethoven, Greig or whomever, is a good way to contrast descriptions when paralleling them to compiling kernel formats. Although we are working with machines that may not allow us to improvise in the same way, let's say, on a piano for instance, the kernel can still be modified to perform as if it had been improvised - because improvised music, discordant, consonant or disonant is always perfectly beautiful and unified by it's point and counterpoint and such then as a programmer interjects to experiements with an alternate set of code, even though it has to follow a strickter set of rules, can still bring it to discovery of new colours , functions and processes that echo structures of the musical form.



regards..

Thanks Ventrical! Very that's very Gracious of you.
I was so burnt out on testing, since 2005 Novel Suse, But I did get free hardware though: any who you and VinDSL have changed my perspective.
Having fun again.
Not trying to get all sappy here, But you two just Enhance my experience in the process..
My Heart Felt Thanks to the both of ya!
Regards

[ventrical]

Thanks!! Maybe great uncle for me!(age)

BTW, that custom 3.12-rc7 kernel worked a treat on my lappy -- flying like the wind.

Peppermint dev indicated that several users have told him, the 3.11 kernel solved a lot of bugs -- peeked his interest IMO.

I *think* 3.12 is even better. It solved a problem I was having  on_the_road with the AT&T wifi system, 
at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio  where I was staying.

Could not agree more I have a Hp DV2700Se with the dreaded broadcom wireless adapter but kernel 3.12 installed it out the box.(Yeah)

Actually the old method worked fine after this fresh install:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

[QDR06VV9]

Actually the old method worked fine after this fresh install:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

Ventrical I used to just install linux-nonfree-firmware worked straight away for me bcm4312

[ventrical]

Ventrical I used to just install linux-nonfree-firmware worked straight away for me bcm4312

Oh.... So installing the 3.12 rc pulls in a free-source driver to make that work then without bcmwl-kernel-source?

[QDR06VV9]

Oh.... So installing the 3.12 rc pulls in a free-source driver to make that work then without bcmwl-kernel-source?

Thats been the case for me recently!

[VinDSL]

Hrm...

Think we got a regression going on here (I've experienced this problem in the past, with other RCs).

Anybody else having problems with their USB flash drives?!?!?

I've got 3.12-rc7 installed on my Latitude and desktop box. USB sticks work on neither.

Both of them recognize USB flash drives as being plugged-in, but neither will mount them -- automount nor allow a manual mount.

EXAMPLE:

vindsl@Zuul:~$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.624035] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760835] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0930, idProduct=6545
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760839] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760843] usb 1-2: Product: USB Flash Memory
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760846] usb 1-2: Manufacturer:         
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760849] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0013729B6607EAC0D57A01E6
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2"
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device

vindsl@Zuul:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

NADA...

vindsl@Zuul:~$ ls -laR /dev/disk
/dev/disk:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  100 Nov  1 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4140 Nov  1 12:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  220 Nov  1 12:07 by-id
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   80 Nov  1 12:07 by-label
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  160 Nov  1 12:07 by-uuid

/dev/disk/by-id:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220 Nov  1 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 Nov  1 12:07 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Nov  1 12:07 ata-HP_DVD_Writer_1040r -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part4 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part6 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ata-MAXTOR_STM3160812AS_5LSBRTN4-part7 -> ../../sda7

/dev/disk/by-label:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  80 Nov  1 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 Nov  1 12:07 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 Ubuntu\x2010.10 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 Ubuntu\x2013.10 -> ../../sda5

/dev/disk/by-uuid:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Nov  1 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 Nov  1 12:07 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 17887ede-93ff-469f-8bda-a29be0cc03c5 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 1835824f-9aba-48ba-874b-6955be247395 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 28a17342-3d9b-4306-96cf-3bd092645ce7 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 5a139fb5-0664-4150-b65a-d73852369ae8 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 ba01bbc8-e888-4891-ade4-923ec2d29946 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Nov  1 12:07 d75f3ee2-ce9d-4408-b39a-8e8b7bab8ae6 -> ../../sda3

Seems to be a kernel issue. Everything works fine when I boot into older kernels...

[sammiev]

Hrm...

Think we got a regression going on.

Anybody else having problems with their USB flash drives?!?!?

I've got 3.12-rc7 installed on my Latitude and desktop box. USB sticks work on neither.

Both of them recognize USB flash drives as being plugged-in, but neither will mount them, automount or manual mount.

EXAMPLE:

vindsl@Zuul:~$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.624035] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760835] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0930, idProduct=6545
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760839] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760843] usb 1-2: Product: USB Flash Memory
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760846] usb 1-2: Manufacturer:         
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul kernel: [ 2992.760849] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0013729B6607EAC0D57A01E6
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2"
Nov  1 12:57:17 Zuul mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device

vindsl@Zuul:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Hi VinDSL,

All seems to work good here.

sam@sam--L650:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0f62:1001 Acrox Technologies Co., Ltd Targus Mini Trackball Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1e3d:6025 Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 10f1:1a2a Importek Laptop Integrated Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
sam@sam--L650:~$