I was having some iwl wifi microcode errors for 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24)

which was making my system unresponsive to the point that it messed with login.d and prevented my system from shutting down.

after a few days of this I resorted to removing the modules but when I ran this after stopping networkmanager sudo modprobe -r iwldvm iwlwifi this happened and when I did sudo lsmod | grep iwlwifi

this was the output

iwlwifi 585728 -1 
cfg80211 1495040 1 iwlwifi

I have since successfully blacklisted that module but any insight will be helpful as I am without wifi for the moment

I was having some iwl wifi microcode errors for 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24)

which was making my system unresponsive to the point that it messed with login.d and prevented my system from shutting down.

after a few days of this I resorted to removing the modules but when I ran this after stopping networkmanager sudo modprobe -r iwldvm iwlwifi this happened and when I did sudo lsmod | grep iwlwifi

this was the output

iwlwifi 585728 -1 
cfg80211 1495040 1 iwlwifi

I have since successfully blacklisted that module but any insight will be helpful as I am without wifi for the moment

I don't remember installing it, everything about it seems "legitimate" grepping through the logs the installation date seems to be 21st January. There was always some slow down when I initially started firefox and today I had HTOP open just to see what was happening and Clamav and ClamAV freshclam process was there. How do I check if it is compromised or which user if any installed it?

SSH is disabled.

This is from a fresh boot of the system, except sshd I have not started anything else. ram consumption used to be just 126-200 mb now it has jumped so significantly that I am concerned I might have unnecessarily bloated my system:

I intend to use the system as a local server with an optional fully featured WM(Hyprland which is installed, but this screenshot was taken before it was loaded) for occasional use.

Ram conservation is a top priority and I would like to know if such a big jump in usage is normal or are there is something wrong with my system config

Solved: thanks to u/dbkblk@lemmy.world; remember to add these USE flags to wpa_supplicant

net-wireless/wpa_supplicant wps wep ap fasteap eap-sim tkip uncommon-eap-types

I am facing this peculiar issue that i can connect to every WiFi connection except my router, it's a recent gentoo install with no display server, i am using a D-link WiFi USB card

What I have tried:

• using iw dev (device) scan to list the ssid and try connecting with wpa_supplicant
  • dhcpcd waits for connection then times out (does connect succesfully to my phones hotspot)
• gave up and spent 3 hours compiling NetworkManager
  • every ssid shows up in nmcli dev wifi list except my router
  • forcing a connection passing bssid shows id not found
  • manually setting the connection using nmcli add also does not work
  • iw dev (device) scan lists my routers ssid along with others
  • nothing is blocked in NetworkManager and I spent hours going back and forth with chatgpt trying to force a connection to no avail
• tried changing router setting(including changing broadcasting channels verifying, black lists etc)

What i have ruled out

• its not the dlink wifi card or the laptop, I can connect to my router just fine using nmcli in a live fedora instance on the same laptop

I have tried every conceivable thing and I cant find what the issue is, it's like my router and Gentoo have some bad blood between them

The card in question: Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M] (Radeon HD 7570M) I am starting to face mounting issues as a lot of modern software have started to abandon OpenGL in favor of Vulkan, and if its possible, I just want to try for the learning opportunity

I have been facing this issue since yesterday, but basically at some point the system becomes insanely slow, and the restart and shutdown options disappear from the menu, tty3-7 dont work, it freezes at the shutdown -now command(at which point I just manually cut the power(bad Idea I know)),

but today I stuck around as my system got insanely borked, eventually freezing up and giving me the screen above. the problem shows up after I wake it up from suspend but not always: My system specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) x86_64 
Host: TECRA R940 PT439V-03U02WAR 
Kernel: 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 
Uptime: 23 mins 
Packages: 2282 (rpm), 43 (flatpak) 
Shell: bash 5.2.32 
Resolution: 1600x900 
DE: GNOME 47.1 
WM: Mutter 
WM Theme: Adwaita 
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: gnome-terminal 
CPU: Intel i7-3540M (4) @ 3.700GHz 
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 
Memory: 1845MiB / 7879MiB 

here are the journalctl entries that I think are relevant

entries for events 40 min before that.

and this is from when it happened earlier in the day