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1 <!DOCTYPE html> 2 <html lang="en"> 3 <head> 4 <meta charset="utf-8"> 5 <title>System Crash Due to Wi-Fi Card | Riaz's Website</title> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> 7 <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> 8 <meta name="description" content="Solution to system-wide freezes due to Wi-Fi card and Linux kernel"> 9 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 10 </head> 11 <body> 12 <h1>System Crash Due to Wi-Fi Card</h1> 13 <hr> 14 <article> 15 <p>I recently changed Wi-Fi cards and started experiencing crashes. Switching network managers, init systems, and browsers did not work, but switching from linux to linux-lts did.</p> 16 <p>After shutting down from a crash, dinit mentioned this.</p> 17 <pre>eth0: NIC Link is down</pre> 18 <p>When I tried shutting down after switching to OpenRC, there was a mention of <code>[drm] GPU</code> and an error about unmounting file systems.</p> 19 <p>If I waited too long, all keyboard input was locked, and I had to remove the laptop's battery. Sometimes, the Caps Lock key flashed, indicating kernel panic. Some examples that caused the crashes were</p> 20 <ul> 21 <li>playing a video, closing the laptop for it to suspend, and reopening the laptop</li> 22 <li>pressing next on a Google form</li> 23 <li>joining a Zoom meeting</li> 24 <li>doing actions that use plenty of bandwidth, such as loading many videos</li> 25 </ul> 26 </article> 27 <footer> 28 <hr> 29 <a href="/">Home Page</a></footer> 30 </body> 31 </html>