Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
From:    Grease
Date:    Sat Sep 19, 2026 14:23

@VIA: DARKMATT
  Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
  By: Bryn to Grease on Tue Sep 15 2026 05:38 pm

 Br> Curious what the results were grease. Had a similar issue years ago, and
 Br> turned out to be that there were known issues with the linux kernel's
 Br> driver for my network card's chipset. The answer was going directly to
 Br> broadcom, compiling a driver in a kernel module fromsource, and loading
 Br> it. Would recommend doing an lspci -v | more and look up whether others
 Br> have had issues with  thewireless card you're running on the version of
 Br> the kernel you have installed.

It was a setting on the laptop's wireless card. In LxQT, I set it to a static address. Eero let's does auto DHCP. So it's the laptop that establishes the address, and not the eero.

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