[Lilug] Troubleshooting Wi-Fi (?) Drivers

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Whenever I've seen General Protection Faults in the past they turned
out to be flaky RAM.  I know this is not a satisfying answer.  You
could boot with a live disk and see if you have an identical problem,
or if the expression of the problem changes.

Nate

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:14 PM,  <robwilkens42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today, I’ve set up Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.1) on my laptop and desktop
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> On the laptop, the wi-fi seems to go in and out—
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>   -it stays connected
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>   -But sporadically, for maybe 30 second to 2 minutes or more, no data
> transfers
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>   -At the time this is happening, I cannot even connect locally to my router
> or desktop Linux machine on network from the laptop
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> On a reboot there was a “general protection fault” which stopped the boot,
> something to do with “RF” (radio frequency a.k.a. wifi?) though I didn’t
> write down the message because I was In a hurry to see if a reboot fixed
> it--- the reboot allowed it to boot all the way through that time.
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> This is frustrating
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> My concern: Let’s say I wanted to troubleshoot the driver to see what was
> going on, I have a secure boot system, so would I be able to boot a custom
> kernel or load a custom driver?  If so, can someone point me towards
> documentation on what I have to do “special” (if anything) to make this
> happen.
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> -Rob
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