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valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 7:05 AM

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@slate sorrel

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:05 AM

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O, oki moving here

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Ic, so it fails probing but keeps itself loaded. Interesting x3

valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 7:06 AM

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There's actually a lot more errors than I thought

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Uh I wonder if I should just switch back to the dist for now

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Actually no yeah duh

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:07 AM

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Also, do you have the firmware files

valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 7:07 AM

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I'll switch to the dist to try and get the wifi up

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Than i can wgetpaste stuff

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I'm waiting for it to boot since I selected the wrong kernel

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It hangs a bit because there's a lot of usb errors for some reason too

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:10 AM

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USB likes breaking in fun ways

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Like half of the stack is like 20 years old untouched

valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 7:11 AM

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Yeah and some other fun issue

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My wallpaper uses 100% of my CPU

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Only on the custom kernel

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Binary it works fine

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I wonder how badly I broke the config honestly

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Well then

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Even the binary kernel usb doesn't work now

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Uh

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Could it be a package error?

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Oh

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I just remembered something I did and forgot about

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I doubt it would break stuff this much

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But i used pip for something at one point

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And it still doesn't see my wifi card

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:15 AM

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valid isle And it still doesn't see my wifi card

Even on bin/dist?

valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 7:15 AM

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Yeah

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And all the usb errors stuck

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Same error driver own failed

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Oh

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Hold on

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That's a weird bug if it's the case

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But i found a reddit thread

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https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/s/zBCIDVKAH2

From the linuxquestions community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the linuxquestions community

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It seems like a hardware issue

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This actually kinda happened on a laptop before but with the touchpad

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I wonder if I could fix it by doing the same thing and just unplugging the battery

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I'll plug it back in in like 3 minutes and hope for the best I suppose

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That did it

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Uh

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Idk

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It even fixed usb

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Uh

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Well than

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That's a weird bug

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I guess I just need to figure out my CPU usage in the custom kernel now

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How do i mark this as solved

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Uh

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:46 AM

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valid isle

Oh hm
That is very pain
Would need to RE the driver and add a bunch of debug prints, test if it works on other distros, etc

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:46 AM

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valid isle That did it

Oh

slate sorrel Sep 13, 2025, 7:46 AM

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valid isle How do i mark this as solved

Can just edit the title ig

valid isle Sep 13, 2025, 8:02 AM

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slate sorrel Oh

yeah idk

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uh

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i'll try the custom kernel again and see what happens

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but this is a weird bug

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one person said it could be a power issue

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