Something happened to my wifi after a hard reset & FSCK
by lawnm0wer from LinuxQuestions.org on (#531PJ)
Hey everyone, so, I'm having wifi issues again. My previous thread with wifi dongle issues was this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175672155/
Anyways, in trying to do some heavy Qemu-using, it turns out, you cannot dedicate 3/4ths of your RAM to a virtual machine and just casually browse the internet on your host at the same time.
web & browser standards these days, I tell you what...
So my Slackware-based host froze, and I hard-reset it which resulted in FSCK running it's shenanigans on sda3 (my /home partition) at startup.
Well, turns out, something is wrong with either the dongle driver I had installed a month earlier, or something else in the system that is causing me to not be able to connect to my wifi router. I am back onto tethering again for the time being. I can connect via wifi on other devices and systems, just not my Slackware machine.
iwconfig doesn't do anything but show my dongle exists, when I try to connect, nothing changes. At this point, I don't know what to do. How can I diagnose and fix this problem?
Anyways, in trying to do some heavy Qemu-using, it turns out, you cannot dedicate 3/4ths of your RAM to a virtual machine and just casually browse the internet on your host at the same time.
web & browser standards these days, I tell you what...
So my Slackware-based host froze, and I hard-reset it which resulted in FSCK running it's shenanigans on sda3 (my /home partition) at startup.
Well, turns out, something is wrong with either the dongle driver I had installed a month earlier, or something else in the system that is causing me to not be able to connect to my wifi router. I am back onto tethering again for the time being. I can connect via wifi on other devices and systems, just not my Slackware machine.
iwconfig doesn't do anything but show my dongle exists, when I try to connect, nothing changes. At this point, I don't know what to do. How can I diagnose and fix this problem?