[Lilug] Troubleshooting Wi-Fi (?) Drivers

[Chuck Reeves]

I have had issues with Broadcom WiFi cards. The drivers they make is crap

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM Mike Costanzo <quarsaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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