You want the huge kernel. So that should be alright ...

Did you do

ls /var/log/packages | grep kernel

which would tell you which kernel packages are installed and therefore which need upgrading?

The generic kernel is a lighter kernel that needs to be booted with an initrd. But there is no ...

These instructions may help (I would be interested in your comments, as they are aimed at users with little, or also, more experience):
https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_a_different_kernel

Once you have got it working, I recommend installing rEFInd on UEFI systems. Just install from ...

Thanks for all the info.
I installed "kernel-huge-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz" with spkg, then run an "eliloconfig", and now the bootloader can't find the kernel (I guess), and it's in an endless cycle of rebooting. There must be an extra step I missed, right?
Plus the Qualcomm QCA9377 in my laptop is ...

You can check the vendor, the model, the kernel module in use and the kernel driver with this command: sudo lspci -knn|grep -iA3 Network


Thank you. It actually came up with a few Intel thingies.
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539 ...

Hello! I'm quite new to Salix, although I used Ubuntu and Slackware on my everyday desktop about 10 years ago. Now Windows 10 made me jump back into Linux once again. After messing around with systemd for a while, and overcoming my shock and sadness felt by the horrible crashes produced by ...