The weird thing is that it seems to be working? Either I misdiagnosed the problem, or maybe my old one was just broken.
Just curious but what distro are you using?
I might be able to help in my spare time
Pop OS. It seems to be working for now, but I think my next step if it happens again will be to just use ethernet and call it a day.
Hey I’m glad it’s working for you! Nice!👍
Totally fair.
Ethernet is the way.
If Ethernet is an option, then it’s the best option.
Well, the PC is far from the router, but someone mentioned setting up a WiFi extender that has an ethernet port, and that doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea.
Pop OS is based on Ubuntu LTS and uses a relatively old base system as a result. Try a live ISO like https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ and check if drivers have since improved.
As far as first problems with Linux go, that one’s a classic! Congrats, LOL
As someone that spent a lot of years sitting next to an IT help desk, I’m not sure any chipsets work well at all. A lot of times you just have to figure out what makes them happy and get used to it.
I’d hear things like “as long as I don’t close my laptop after I undock, i don’t have to reboot to fix the wifi” as the person waddled across the office propping their laptop open. And these were high end windows laptops.
If you want to save troubleshooting time, just skip straight to the blood sacrifice. Computers are happy when you bleed, for some reason.
Similar thing happened to me a while back, though the new one was just as much of a pain. So anyway, there is now a new, RJ45-shaped, hole in my wall.
That was a perfectly reasonable response.
My overactive imagination: They used a speargun designed to fire RJ-45 shaped bolts through walls, pulling high tensile strength networking cable with it.
That’s gonna be a good game. Like power wash simulator or viscera cleanup detail, but for structured cabling.
You could do a proper termination
inb4 Ubuntu added a kernel patch to improve support and didn’t contribute it upstream.
Time to reinstall your distro
One of my goals is to get my storage and backups to the point that it’s ALWAYS a good day to reinstall my distro
Use a separate home partition to decouple the system from your user data. Easier to snapshot and to replace the system.
Or a NAS for truly decoupled. Only thing I’d lose with a fresh install is any installed applications which can all be pulled again easily but the added upside of my wife also having easy access.
How do you handle offline access, for example when using a Laptop? Syncthing seems to be an option.
And my wish is granted! This is the dawn of a new golden age for Linux memes!
I bought a cheap wifi card and it worked instantly after installing it. Linux really fell off, huh?
You could try switching your wifi backend to iwd instead of wpa_supplicant.
If you’re using NetworkManager, then create the file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf, and add the following configuration:
[device] wifi.backend=iwdIf it’s periodically dropping, I doubt that it’s going to be the userspace WiFi backend. I’d be more-inclined to blame either the driver or an (unlabeled) hardware variation.
I had this exact issue with both my desktop and server. Anytime I put any sort of load on the outbound connection, the wifi would cut out. After switching to the iwd backend, I haven’t had any issues.
Fair enough!
Be me and get a cheap MacBook Pro 2015 to run Linux Has Broadcom adapter Apparently the worst one 43602 chip Proceeds to install arch anyway Tries 3 drivers, no luck Tries many workarounds, no luck Cries to sleep Runs internet recovery to install macOS, fails
Guys, listen to the wiki and techstack sites. Don’t get broadcom
😂 time to build your Linux from source!
After both the 4G modem and the wifi dongles didn’t work I decided to flash an old TP-link router with OpenWRT (or was it DDWRT?) and using that in a bridge mode connected wifi and via ethernet to the PC. So yeah, then I got an Intel wifi 6 NIC and gave the router away.
I’ve done that before, most reliable wifi connection I’ve ever had.
Hah, I’ve totally done that. I’m thinking about doing it again, because it worked way better than my desktops built-in wifi adapter that has no external antenna.
Tienes que poner el locale en español. Ese es el truco.
Esta es la solución.
These shit are so weird, breaks on windows works on Linux, doesn’t work sometimes on boot and I have to restart my pc for it to work
modprobe, man
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