GoPro Hero 13 webcam via Linux USB networking

Posted on Jul 09, 2025 by kingbeowulf

Slackware64-current and NetworkManager

Posted on Jun 17, 2019 by kingbeowulf

On the Lenovo T510 laptop I use to track and test Slackware-current, everything I've played with has been good so far. About a week ago, after another kernel update (4.19.48 and .49), the wifi kept dropping off when using Network Manager via the KDE network applet in the systray. Wired connectivity was fine. I at first though the Netgear R7000 router was gimpy since I had just updated it's firmware as well. The laptop would drop the connection after a few hours, and DHCP would take several minutes, if it connected at all. Usually, '/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart' (or stop, start) would fix the issue for a while. However, other devices (phones, tablets, Slackware-14.2...) remained connected with no issues. Using the command line nmcli and nmtui worked with no connectivity issues for several days. There has been another kernel update, and I haven't tried Xfce yet.

UPDATE: Looks like the updates from last week (kernel 4.19.51 now) seemed to fix this odd Network manager applet glitch.

Very Basic Qemu Bridge Networking in Slackware

Posted on Feb 10, 2019 by kingbeowulf

This is a very simple bridge example to allow your qemu quest to access your host's LAN and internet, as opposed to being isolated to access only the internet via NAT (the default), for a Slackware64 14.2 host and a Windows 10 guest. Note: in this case you will need to install the Windows 10 virtio drivers, otherwise you can just use one of the standard emulated qemu NICs. Create the ACL file to allow user access to the bridge. As root create '/etc/qemu/bridge.conf' with the lines: