[Lilug] Troubleshooting Wi-Fi (?) Drivers

[Mike Costanzo]

Rob,

A comment not about your WiFi problem but about the use of the list:

I'd encourage using the list to ask Linux questions, I think it's the right
place for it.  More often than not I will learn something just by watching
a question go back and forth.

-Mike



On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Robert Wilkens <robwilkens42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not excited by that answer, but i accept that it's a reasonable
> possible explanation...  I haven't had similar crashes in Windows on this
> laptop, but i know the nature of these issues is they are sporadic
>
>
> BTW Sorry if i may occasionally use this list for linux questions, I don't
> know how welcome it is, but i figure if i can i'll embarrass myself locally
> before i embarrass myself globally (as a rule anyway)
> If anyone is opposed to my use of the list like this, just tell me and
> i'll find somewhere else to find answers.
>
> -Rob
>
>
> On 10/26/2016 01:00 PM, iN8sWoRld.net wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On the laptop, the wi-fi seems to go in and out—
>>>
>>>    -it stays connected
>>>
>>>    -But sporadically, for maybe 30 second to 2 minutes or more, no data
>>> transfers
>>>
>>>    -At the time this is happening, I cannot even connect locally to my
>>> router
>>> or desktop Linux machine on network from the laptop
>>>
>>>
>>>   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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is frustrating
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>>>
>>>
>>>
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