chill's Journal: Intel Wifi Crashing

Note to future self.

I was fiddling around with my laptop and broke something. My WiFi kept disconnecting every couple of minutes. A quick look in dmesg showed the iwlwifi kernel module was segfaulting every couple of minutes.

This was new. WTF had I changed? Reminder to self -- don't fiddle with things that matter when really tired.

As it turns out, I had enabled up the amd64-microcode in my system, which is under Additional Drivers in Ubuntu. This played absolute havoc with the Intel WiFi and provided no discernible benefits.

Uncheck box, reboot machine, problem resolved.

I know the feels

[Highdude702]

I know the feeling. I have always had issues with Intel wireless on Linux. I'm not home or I would pull my notes out from years back. It's a rather. On on problem and if you search through Google you should be able to find the issue. If I remember correctly it is due to power modes on the wifi card and you need to disable them completely and I think there's something you also have to blacklist. It's been years since I've used Intel wifi on a computer so this all out of vague memory. Hope I helped!

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[chill]

The laptop has an AMD A-10 CPU. But, the WiFi is a mini-PCIe card, Intel AC 7260+. Thus the amd64-microcode plus the Intel WiFi drivers.