LMDE6 started to drop Realtek wifi card
from Certainity45@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 07 Jun 21:40
https://lemmy.ml/post/16591964

I’ve had LMDE6 installed since it’s release day and everything has been fine. For the past week it’s been dropping my wifi card randomly. It is not recognized by rfkill nor lspci after it happens. Only reboot helps.

Does anyone know why it might happen? Kernel is 6.1.0-21-amd64 but I don’t know has the kernel been updated recently.

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Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee on 07 Jun 21:59 next collapse

How recent is your computer? Debian based distros, due to their focus on stability tend to have quite old packages, namely kernels

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jun 23:34 collapse

OP said it’s been running fine until recently, so I doubt it’s the kernel.

Sammirr@aussie.zone on 07 Jun 22:45 next collapse

I’d start with checking logs with journalctl as a privileged user. If the device disappears, there should be logs about it. Maybe that will point the way.

Flaky@lemmy.zip on 11 Jun 18:16 collapse

This. Sounds similar to a problem I had on my Intel chip (AX210) though I found out iwlwifi was panicking using dmesg. Probably would’ve been easier to use journalctl.

FBJimmy@lemmus.org on 07 Jun 23:35 next collapse

I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless…

forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:te….

charles3@scribe.disroot.org on 08 Jun 02:07 next collapse

Which brand is it? I have an HP and have a similar problem, adding “pcie_aspm.policy=performance” to the kernel parameters mostly mitigates it but on Fedora like distros it may still have errors I don’t know how to fix.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 08 Jun 03:57 next collapse

Let me guess, Realtek

Edit:

What chipset?

lemmyreader@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 06:54 next collapse

Kernel is 6.1.0-21-amd64 but I don’t know has the kernel been updated recently.

zgrep linux-image /var/log/dpkg.log* can tell you more.

bloodfart@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 17:15 collapse

Your computer is going into s1 and the driver for your card can’t wake it back up.

Certainity45@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 20:34 collapse

No. It goes off when I’m using it actively. I’ve never had any issues getting back from hibernate.

bloodfart@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 20:50 collapse

Damn, I thought I had you clocked.

Getting hot maybe? Some of those baseband chips are downright tiny and can’t really dissipate the heat they build up under heavy use…

Did you look at dmesg/journalctl to to see what the kernel says when it falls over?

E: spelling/autocorrect