Thanks for sharing your journey Djemos and Papasot.

Thank you for the information, very helpful:-)

Can kernel firmware get updated using this method? As you mentioned earlier it is probably not necessary with a live usb to upgrade kernel software or software in general as the live usb will eventually start to run out of storage.

Had a go at upgrading a live usb kernel the script worked great:-) Would you usually run the make_new_kernel_module.sh script? If so when would you bother with the make_new_kernel_generic_module.sh script?

Thank you Djemos for the info greatly appreciated.

I run a number of Slackel 7.3 64 bit openbox live usbs on older machines in classes I teach as the hardware is pathetically slow with other OS's is it worth upgrading the Kernel? Perhaps not needed but if I wanted to do so can it be done easily?

Yes I'm from New Zealand have run Linux on my devices since around 2000 originally got interested in opensource software around 1999 after reading various articles in computing magazines advocating the benefits of Linux and opensource applications. Was particularly inspired by a teacher in the US ...

Thank you for your solution djemos yours was far simpler than the one I Googled and works perfectly, thanks tried this on a fresh install of slackel 7.3 openbox on a hp2760p elitebook laptop that I use for work. I'm a teacher and even though this laptop was produced in 2011 it is upgraded to 8GB of ...

I can find a bluetooth speaker, trust and pair it but it consistently had a failed to connect error over last few months. I Googled Slackware bluetooth connection problems and this forum on https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-current-bluetooth-headphones-and-pulseaudio ...

Thanks very much, I downloaded slapt-get and gslapt and had a missing dependency it was gpgme-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz I used installpkg for all these and then my gslapt was functioning again. I have managed to reinstall my software from that point. Thankyou for this information - in slackel/salix we ...