On Tuesday 29 November 2016 02:22:40 Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/11/16 14:27, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote: > >> > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running > >> > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports. > > > > Don't. That kernel is very broken. Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel > > available from either unstable or kernel.org, or compile the latest > > 4.4-longterm kernel from kernel.org. > > Woah. I was just about to install that. Am I ok, and better off, > sticking with the 4.6 bpo kernel?
I had no joy with kernel 4.7 from backports on my HP ProBook 650. The Broadcom-sta-dkms package is not available for that kernel version. So, no wireless network. Moreover, the computer would frequently freeze during start up. Frederic