[Lilug] Troubleshooting Wi-Fi (?) Drivers

[Robert Wilkens]

This was an Intel Wifi card (Wireless-AC)

Seems that:

1) Fixing the system clock (was off due to time zone issues and UTC with 
Windows, required changing windows registry then rebooting between 
systems multiple times and resetting the clock until it stayed constant)

2) Swapping out my access point with a new Linksys WRT3200ACM

solved the dropped wifi data issue


-Rob


On 10/26/2016 05:06 PM, Chuck Reeves wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>             <mailto: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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