[GTALUG] Laptop (very) weirdness

[Don Tai]

Have you tried connecting RJ45 to your router?
Have you tried a different wifi network?

Don

On 10 December 2017 at 19:26, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> My dual-boot  Asus laptop now exhibits very strange behaviour.
>
> Under Windows 10 all is normal (well, its form of normal).
>
> Under Linux (current mint KDE)  at work, all seems ok.
>
> At home, all hell breaks loose. The only difference is the wifi.
>
> After a normal login not only does networking not come up but the KDE menu
> bar doesn't display upon startup, all I have is the KDE wallpaper and a
> working xterm. Simple commands work but 'sudo bash' hangs.
>
> If I try to shutdown the system hangs. ALT-F1 gives me some kind of
> massive dump starting with the lines:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000011c
> IP iul_num_add_sta+0x49e/0x720 [iwlmvm]
>
> Can anyone make sense of why simply using a different wifi router would
> cause this? An inability to connect is one thing, but this is nuts.
>
> (And people ask me why I hesitate to recommend desktop Linux to
> non-techies...)
>
> Happy to bring it in to Tuesday's meeting if anyone can help...
>
> - Evan (on mobile)
>
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