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dreivier

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Registered: 2016-04-07

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PC Fails to boot if wifi stick is still in usb slot

I just bought a new wifi stick (TP-Link Archer T2UH AC600) which worked right away when I plugged it in. So there seems to be a working driver.

When booting the PC with the stick still plugged in however it fails to boot. No message or whatsoever and just a blank screen.
I do have LUKS with an encrypted hd in use (following this gist: https://gist.github.com/burningTyger/cb … 74ac40f16)

Do I have to add a wifi driver to my mkinitcpio.conf? As a module, hook?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: PC Fails to boot if wifi stick is still in usb slot

No message or whatsoever

Remove the "quiet" parameter and try to only boot into the multi-user.target, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into

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dreivier

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Registered: 2016-04-07

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Re: PC Fails to boot if wifi stick is still in usb slot

I went back to using my old wifi stick which works a lot better with an extension usb cable. Just as good as the new one with an antenna. Doesn't really solve the problem though.

A different default target also didn't help, quiet wasn't even activated. Looks like it doesn't even pass the BIOS. The same issue appears when waking from suspend.

Last edited by dreivier (2019-05-05 14:39:05)

seth

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Re: PC Fails to boot if wifi stick is still in usb slot

Can you enter the BIOS w/ the wifi dongled in?

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dreivier

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Registered: 2016-04-07

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Re: PC Fails to boot if wifi stick is still in usb slot

I packed it up again. It worked when hot rebooted but not with a cold reboot. Just didn't feel like tikering given the working nano stick that got the same speeds which didn't work when it was used right on the PC case. I'll just return it. Thank you for your time.