> It has to be an older one -- not a brand new one or you run into the same > problem of having a too-new adapter.
That's not true. It varies device by device. Some new devices have excellent drivers. Always check http://linuxwireless.org/. === Gavin, Many drivers have debug mode, which will output to the kernel logger (`journalctl -k` or `dmesg`). It varies by driver, and you'll have to poke around in /sys to find it, and probably write 1 to a file. Additionally, putting wpa supplicant in debug mode `-dd` option to `/usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service` might get you more information. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:42 PM, <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Gavin Simpson wrote: > >> Nothing that jumps out at me. Here's the entries from the journal from >> the last time I restarted the wifi to a point where the connection is >> lost: >> >> [snip' >> >> > > Speaking as a fedora user, this has happened to me a number of times over > the years. I've posted to this and other forums each time and get the same > kind of responses of tweaking this or that (particularly the MTU). > > And... every time, it either didn't work or worked poorly. I am convinced > it was the driver. > > What I ended up doing was go out and buy a slightly-out-of-date external usb > wifi adapter. It has to be an older one -- not a brand new one or you run > into the same problem of having a too-new adapter. > > Then, I use the thing for a couple of months (or until the next version > comes out), and viola! It's magically working again. > > The laptop I'm using is a case in point. I bought it in the early days of > Fedora 22. Nothing I tried would make the damn thing go for more than about > 5 minutes. In installed Mint, and it didn't work. I installed Manjaro, and > it didn't work. > > So, I plugged in my three-year-old usb wifi adapter and chugged along with > that until Fedora 23 came out. And, voila, it worked perfectly. > > Things aren't nearly as bad as they were 20 years ago, when you had to go > out and buy an obsolete machine or else spend a month trying to make the > hardware work. But occasionally, the drivers are still not quite "there" > yet on brand new boxes. > > > billo > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
