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<p>This was an Intel Wifi card (Wireless-AC)</p>
<p>Seems that:</p>
<p>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)<br>
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<p>2) Swapping out my access point with a new Linksys WRT3200ACM</p>
<p>solved the dropped wifi data issue<br>
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<p>-Rob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/26/2016 05:06 PM, Chuck Reeves
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<div dir="ltr">I have had issues with Broadcom WiFi cards. The
drivers they make is crap</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM Mike Costanzo
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<div class="gmail_msg">Rob,</div>
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A comment not about your WiFi problem but about the use of
the list:
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<div class="gmail_msg">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
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<div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at
1:07 PM, Robert Wilkens <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a
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0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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<br
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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)<br
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If anyone is opposed to my use of the list like this,
just tell me and i'll find somewhere else to find
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On 10/26/2016 01:00 PM, iN8sWoRld.net wrote:<br
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Whenever I've seen General Protection Faults in
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satisfying answer. You<br class="gmail_msg">
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Today, I’ve set up Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.1) on my
laptop and desktop<br class="gmail_msg">
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On the laptop, the wi-fi seems to go in and out—<br
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-it stays connected<br class="gmail_msg">
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-But sporadically, for maybe 30 second to 2
minutes or more, no data<br class="gmail_msg">
transfers<br class="gmail_msg">
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-At the time this is happening, I cannot even
connect locally to my router<br
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or desktop Linux machine on network from the
laptop<br class="gmail_msg">
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On a reboot there was a “general protection
fault” which stopped the boot,<br
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something to do with “RF” (radio frequency
a.k.a. wifi?) though I didn’t<br
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write down the message because I was In a hurry
to see if a reboot fixed<br class="gmail_msg">
it--- the reboot allowed it to boot all the way
through that time.<br class="gmail_msg">
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This is frustrating<br class="gmail_msg">
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My concern: Let’s say I wanted to troubleshoot
the driver to see what was<br class="gmail_msg">
going on, I have a secure boot system, so would
I be able to boot a custom<br class="gmail_msg">
kernel or load a custom driver? If so, can
someone point me towards<br class="gmail_msg">
documentation on what I have to do “special” (if
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