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.

  • 0xC4aE1e5@scribe.disroot.org
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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

        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

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    5 months ago

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

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    5 months ago

    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.