From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 27/09/2024 11:24, nev young wrote:   
   > On 26/09/2024 21:13, druck wrote:   
   >> On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:   
   >>> Resolved.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made   
   >>> last March.   
   >>>   
   >>> Everything works reliably again.   
   >>>   
   >>> (as long as I never run apt)!   
   >>>   
   >> Buster is very old,   
   > so am I :-) 71 next month.   
   >   
   > Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is   
   >> still receiving updates.   
   > I was running Bullseye when the wifi started to fail.   
   > AFAICT there was something about wps being deprecated and replaced with   
   > nm. But the confs were not converted. Other reasons have also been   
   > given. I wasn't amused to have to pull 21 SD cards and re-flash them   
   > especially as quite a few require ladders and a team of 3 guys to do it   
   > under current H&S rules.   
   >   
   > So I'm sticking with and old, probably unsupported, o/s that just works.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of an old engineering saying.   
   > "If it's not broke, don't fix it" :-)   
   >   
      
   I have to agree. I have a version of something nasty from the woodshed*   
   of expired Linux distros running one Pi Zero...and its simply not   
   possible to add any new code to it as its repos are extinct.   
      
   Hence the development on a fresh PI with bookworm...   
      
   *Cold Comfort Farm   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdcsfmpTHg   
      
   Apart from security, the only reason I have to upgrade is to get other   
   peoples new applications to run   
      
      
      
   --   
   In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone   
   gets full Marx.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)