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#1 2018-04-18 23:24:23

faengarm
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Registered: 2018-04-18
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System freezes while using WiFi with broadcom-wl-dkms firmware

I have this older laptop at home and a while back I installed Linux on it. At first it worked fine as I was using ethernet but then I managed to break the port so I had to settle for wifi. I found out that I need to use the wl driver. Everything worked fine at first but then the my system just froze. I thought right away that it's because of the wifi so I tried to use it without it. The laptop work fine for hours but when I connect to wifi it freezes just under an hour. I checked journal and there is nothing occuring before my forced reboot. Sadly I am not sure what I should check so I would appreciate any help. I will gladly provide all the additional information one would need to help here.

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#2 2018-04-19 06:57:27

seth
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Registered: 2012-09-03
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Re: System freezes while using WiFi with broadcom-wl-dkms firmware

The "freeze" and forced reboot prevent the journal from syncing to disc, so the trail isn't there after a reboot.
Try running "dmesg -w" in sight (so that you can for sure see the output when the system freezes) and wait for the issue. Hopefully you'll get some interesting messages before the graphics stack freezes.

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