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What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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tell me the most ass over backward shit you do to keep your system chugging?
here's mine:
sway struggles with my dual monitors, when my screen powers off and back on it causes sway to crash.
system service 'switch-to-tty1.service'

[Unit]
Description=Switch to tty1 on resume
After=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

'switch-to-tty1.service' executes '/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh' and send user to tty1

#!/bin/bash
# Switch to tty1
chvt 1

.bashrc login from tty1 then kicks user to tty2 and logs out tty1.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    chvt 2
    logout
fi

also tty2 is blocked from keyboard inputs (Alt+Ctrl+F2) so its a somewhat secure lock-screen which on sway lock-screen aren't great.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 months ago (4 children)

intel won't allow its linux drivers to work above wifi 4 speeds in ap mode, so i created a kvm virtual windows machine with pci pass through on the wifi nic plus ip masquerade and now i'm getting wifi 6 speeds in ap mode.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, this is horrible. I beg you to find a better solution 🙏

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it's horrible in more ways that you would expect and what other solutions exist with intel wifi hardware in ap mode on linux?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think NDISwrapper is still maintained for issues like this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

i wasn't aware that you could use ndiswrapper on an access point; i'll look into it.

UPDATE: googles says that you can't do this because ndiswrapper uses windows drivers that don't support ap mode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The kludge wins. 😅

[–] zelifcam 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is beautiful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it's a pita every time something goes wrong; it works well most of the time, but it also REALLY sucks sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lots of laptops just use a removable m.2 wifi card. Have you considered replacing it with something thats properly supported? I know hardware costs money but not that much probably.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not a laptop; it's a mini desktop that I obtained to serve as a wifi router; storage server; firewall; VPN; media server; remote file storage; and my cat's favorite warm napping surface.

the wifi nic is embedded on the motherboard and it was chosen since it included a high gain antenna; among other qualities.

Wifi works fine if you use it in ordinary client mode w full Linux support and the hardware is capable of fully supporting ap mode in older Linux kernels; it's just that Intel decided remove higher speed ap mode support in the latest versions of the driver to force people to buy thier more expensive wifi nics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay thats the one kind of device where there is nothing you can really do true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

it's an ordinary desktop; the screwiness is introduced by intel's decision to remove ap capability from its recent drivers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the real solution, just stop using the built in stuff and free yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not a laptop and the hardware is fully capable of ap mode support in it's older iteration of drivers; Intel made the decision to remove that capability in the recent versions of the driver.