I have looked through the manual for my laptop and I cannot seem to find any information that specifies how many external monitors and at what resolution I can use...

I'm dealing with some strange UEFI problems and right now the only thing I seem to be able to boot is openSUSE Tumbleweed on a live USB stick (KDE version, snapshot 20170608 x64). Background: I'm dealing with a Toshiba Satellite S55t-B5233 laptop. I wanted to reinstall Windows 10, but when I installed it, it did not properly wipe the partition and I ended up with the option to boot "Windows 10" or "Windows 10" when I started up. I booted up an openSUSE live image, deleted every partition on the drive, created a new, blank EFI system partition with a FAT filesystem, and then my troubles began. I could not boot from anything, **including USB sticks that had literally worked less than an hour or so before**. Finally, I was able to boot from the openSUSE live USB after holding down the "U" key. I tried installing openSUSE to the disk, but that didn't work. I've tried a true openSUSE install image on a USB drive (not the live image), Archiso on a USB drive, the rEFInd live USB image, and a Windows 10 installer made with Rufus. None of them work—all I get is a "No bootable device -- Please restart system". (I even tried changing the MBR disk identifier of the Arch drive to match the openSUSE one. That didn't work either.) Anyway, onto my real question. (In the context of the openSUSE live environment) efibootmgr --verbose lists "Windows Boot Manager" as an entry in the UEFI boot options. It also specifies a file path to bootmgfw.efi, which no longer exists on the drive. When I use efibootmgr -b 3 -B I get Could not delete variable: Interrupted system call. The file for Boot0003 disappears from /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, and efibootmgr says that no BootOrder is set, but upon rebooting both variables return to their previous state. I think that the changes to the efivars filesystem aren't actually being written to the firmware, so does that indicate a bug with openSUSE, or does it mean a problem with the firmware? EDIT: Using the GRUB command line, I booted into Arch Linux. The same problem continued.

Using a toshiba hdd I am unable to get power on hours or anything similar. Requesting assistance. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/250577/check-how-long-a-hdd-has-been-used-in-linux From this forum post and using -all it shows lots of useful information, but nothing related to power on hours. Toshiba drive: Toshiba 16TB Enterprise HDD SAS 12Gb/s 512e 7200 RPM 512MB Cache 3.5" Internal Hard Drive MG08SCA16TE

I just installed Debian 8.5 CD install on my Toshiba Satellite machine, not in a VM. As it was setting up it told me that some iwlwifi and rtl files were missing, but it didn't really matter as I thought I could add them later. Using a usb stick, I downloaded [firmware-iwlwifi](https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/firmware-iwlwifi/download) and [firmware-realtek](https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/firmware-realtek/download) , used dpkg -i on both and my previously empty /lib/firmware is now populated with a lot of iwlwifi files and a directory /lib/firmware/rltwifi with quite a bit of rlt files. After reboot, ifconfig still only listed lo. Downloaded and installed iwconfig to see if I can wake up wlan0 manually, but it still didn't work. In the [Ask Ubuntu General Room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room) they asked me the output of lsmod | grep iwlwifi, which [showed](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/30695065#30695065) that indeed I have the driver installed rfkill wasn't installed, and after installation via USB no connection was blocked, but it had found an hci0 and phy0 dmesg | grep wifi outputs (all under [ some numbers] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: ): irq 66 for MSI/MSI-X Unsupported splx structure firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode loaded firmware version 23.215.9.0 op_mode iwlmvm Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3160, REV=0x164 L1 Disabled - LTR Enabled L1 Disabled - LTR Enabled output of lspci -nn | grep 0280: 07:00.0 Network Controller : Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 [8086:08b3] (rev cb) I don't have a desktop environment yet, so only terminal answers please, althought it is possible to set up MATE or GNOME via USB Is there anything I'm missing? Currently browsing from an old windows machine

I'm trying to wake up my old Toshiba Satellite 1410-604 laptop (bought in 2003) cause I want to use my old 35mm negative and slide film scanner which only runs on XP. Unfortunately, when I start the laptop it asks me for a "HDD password" which I'm fairly certain it never did before. I've thrown every root and admin password at it that I remember ever having used but with no success. Has anyone succesfully dealt with a similar problem? All suggestions are welcome.

I am using Windows 7 on my Toshiba Satellite series laptop. I want to install Kali on it, but when I checked the Toshiba website, I found they do not provide device drivers for Linux. So, does this mean I will not be able to use Wi-Fi on my laptop due to non-availability of a WLAN driver? Also, what about other drivers like Ethernet drivers? Do you know of any alternative source(s)?

I'm using Debian 8 with Gnome 3.14. The laptop came with the PCI BCM43124 module. Right after the OS installation I was not able to see any WiFi devices. I followed these instructions and got it where now I can actually see the network applet in the top-right menu of my desktop. Now, when I click on the "Select Network" option I get an empty list (instead of a list with potential SSIDs): This is what sudo /sbin/iwconfigreturns: What am I missing? Any hints or advice would be much appreciated.

The PC is a ca. 2006 Toshiba Satellite L 100-113 . I switched from Windows XP back in 2014 and have experienced random freezes since then which I did not see in XP. adding irqpoll t9 kernel params used to help.

Hi I need to Reflash the BIOS of my Toshiba Satellite L855-10P using a Linux distro. How can one do this? I have found lots of info on how to read the BIOS (windows & Linux), dump memory from it (Linux), and installation via windows & / usb / floppy but not reflashing in Linux.

I powerwashed my device, so that it would be 'brand new,' but now I don't have sudo access. I am using a Toshiba Chromebook 1, which is a linux device. What is the default root password?

I have a toshiba sattelite c665 laptop and i have installed kali 1.1.0a few days ago. Bluetooth of my laptop is not working , whenever i click on the bluetooth icon in top bar, it shows "Bluetooth: On" but settings shows that bluetooth is disabled. Following are the outputs of few commands i wrote in terminal and their result, lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0930:0214 Toshiba Corp. Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05c6:6001 Qualcomm, Inc. Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 10f1:1a34 Importek Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) 3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) 3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) 3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) 3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) 3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) 3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) dmesg | grep Blue [ 1.898797] usb 2-1.6: Product: Askey Bluetooth Module [ 4.933043] toshiba_bluetooth: Detected Toshiba ACPI Bluetooth device - installing RFKill handler [ 4.933105] toshiba_bluetooth: Re-enabling Toshiba Bluetooth [ 5.481700] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19 [ 5.481726] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 5.481737] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 5.481740] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 5.481750] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [12298.413361] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [12298.413376] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [12298.413383] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 Please help me fix this issue...

My touchpad doesn’t get detected. I can use my touchpad as a simple mouse, but without any extra features like scrolling. My notebook is a **Toshiba Tecra Z40-A-11R**. I'm running Elementary OS Freya (based on Ubuntu 14.04). My kernel version is **3.16.0-41-generic**. ## xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ TOSHIBA Web Camera - FHD id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Toshiba input device id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] ## lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 008: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b3b2 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0b97:7772 O2 Micro, Inc. OZ776 CCID Smartcard Reader Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0b97:7761 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 1.1 Hub Bus 002 Device 005: ID 138a:0010 Validity Sensors, Inc. Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1199:9063 Sierra Wireless, Inc. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub ## lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP USB xHCI HC (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HECI #0 (rev 04) 00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HECI KT (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I218-LM (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev e4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP USB EHCI #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04) 01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 6b) **What can I do so that the touchpad is detected correctly?**

I have a Toshiba Satellite PSAG8U-04001W. No eth* interface shows up on ifconfig. $ ifconfig -a lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2544 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:2544 (2.4 KiB) wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:6b:d3:1b:dc inet addr:192.168.1.83 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:6bff:fed3:1bdc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:27901 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:18098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:20958957 (19.9 MiB) TX bytes:3551000 (3.3 MiB) Even more surprinsingly, neither lshw nor lspci shows anything related to wired ethernet controller/adapter: lshw: $lshw -C network *-network description: Wireless interface product: WiFi Link 5100 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: wlan2 version: 00 serial: 00:21:6b:d3:1b:dc width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-4-amd64 firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 ip=192.168.1.83 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn resources: irq:45 memory:d4600000-d4601fff lspci: $lspci -nnk 00:00.0 Host bridge : Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 Display controller : Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device : Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.1 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.4 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1e.0 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge : Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] 00:1f.2 SATA controller : Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2929] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: ahci 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 03:00.0 Network controller : Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232] Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN [8086:1201] Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi 04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci 04:06.1 SD Host controller : Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci 04:06.2 System peripheral : Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: r592 04:06.3 System peripheral : Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e] Kernel driver in use: r852 Why is my laptop's wired ethernet not showing? How can I debug this? The installation of Debian wasn't originally on this system: it was on an older laptop whose motherboard fried, so I rescued the hard drive as well as the Debian installation. However, I doubt this should have anything to do with lspci not even detecting the wired eth controller.

I just purchased a *Toshiba Satellite E45t-A4100* laptop, installed *Fedora 20*, and cannot get the touchpad to work. Here's my environment: Toshiba Satellite E45t-A4100 ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad ---------- uname -r 3.13.8-200.fc20.x86_64 ---------- dmesg | grep mouse [ 0.687578] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 1.491139] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x381f01) [ 1.518222] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x00, 0x14, 0x0c. ---------- xinput --list | grep Touchpad ⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ---------- cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep syna [ 25.548] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" [ 25.548] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so [ 25.548] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 25.548] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' [ 25.570] (II) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: found clickpad property [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: x-axis range 0 - 3097 (res 31) [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: y-axis range 0 - 1793 (res 31) [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: pressure range 0 - 255 [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: finger width range 0 - 15 [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: buttons: left double triple [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0xe [ 25.570] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found [ 25.580] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5 [ 25.580] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75 [ 25.580] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.056 [ 25.580] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found ---------- cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" EndSection # This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on # non-synaptics clickpads. # This option is only interpreted by clickpads. Section "InputClass" Identifier "Default clickpad buttons" MatchDriver "synaptics" Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0" EndSection ...

without not much load on the machine, it suddenly went busy and went unresponsive. it could not respond to keyboard or mouse movement or neither would move to another other tty's. there is some log which may hint about the problem. can someone please help identify the problem? EDIT: also sometimes my internet just stalls; i cannot see any packets going through when using tcpdump. i have to reconnect again to the wifi network for the packets to start flowing again; but i have noticed these problems after i have recently changed my provider to Sky, Uk and they have provided a router with model number, SR101 sky router settings region: europe; channel: auto; mode: auto; auth: wpa2-psk (aes) /var/log/syslog kernel: [ 7593.778323] ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel: [ 7593.778352] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-3.5.0/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c:7953 brcms_c_wait_for_tx_comp kernel: [ 7593.778355] Hardware name: Satellite R630 kernel: [ 7593.778357] Modules linked in: pci_stub vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) bnep rfcomm parport_pc ppdev joydev kvm arc4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek brcmsmac mac80211 brcmutil cfg80211 cordic uvcvideo videobuf2_core videodev videobu snd_hwdep snd_pcm microcode snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi toshiba_acpi sparse_keymap snd_seq_midi_event wmi toshiba_b mac_hid snd intel_ips lpc_ich soundcore snd_page_alloc i915 drm_kms_helper psmouse serio_raw mei bcma drm i2c_algo_bit video l [last unloaded: e1000e] kernel: [ 7593.778416] Pid: 18560, comm: kworker/u:1 Tainted: G O 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu kernel: [ 7593.778418] Call Trace: kernel: [ 7593.778428] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 kernel: [ 7593.778432] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 kernel: [ 7593.778445] [] brcms_c_wait_for_tx_completion+0x99/0xb0 [brcmsmac] kernel: [ 7593.778453] [] brcms_ops_flush+0x3b/0x60 [brcmsmac] kernel: [ 7593.778473] [] ieee80211_scan_work+0x34d/0x5e0 [mac80211] kernel: [ 7593.778481] [] ? finish_task_switch+0x4a/0xf0 kernel: [ 7593.778485] [] process_one_work+0x12a/0x420 kernel: [ 7593.778498] [] ? ieee80211_run_deferred_scan+0x80/0x80 [mac80211] kernel: [ 7593.778502] [] worker_thread+0x12e/0x2f0 kernel: [ 7593.778506] [] ? manage_workers.isra.26+0x200/0x200 kernel: [ 7593.778510] [] kthread+0x93/0xa0 kernel: [ 7593.778516] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 kernel: [ 7593.778520] [] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 kernel: [ 7593.778523] [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 kernel: [ 7593.778526] ---[ end trace 6499cba8e2fb8557 ]--- kernel modules pci_stub vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv parport_pc ppdev bnep rfcomm joydev btusb bluetooth snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek coretemp kvm_intel kvm arc4 brcmsmac mac80211 brcmutil cfg80211 cordic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq_midi uvcvideo videobuf2_core videodev videobuf2_vmalloc snd_rawmidi videobuf2_memops snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device toshiba_acpi sparse_keymap wmi toshiba_bluetooth snd mac_hid microcode i915 psmouse serio_raw lpc_ich bcma drm_kms_helper intel_ips drm soundcore snd_page_alloc lp i2c_algo_bit mei video parport sdhci_pci sdhci uname Linux 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux network information from lshw *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 4 logical name: wlan0 serial: b4:74:9f:5b:a0:57 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=3.5.0-17-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.4 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn EDIT: wireless info ~$ sudo lspci -vv -s 02:00.0 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) .. Capabilities: [16c v1] Power Budgeting Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge Kernel modules: bcma log when wifi cannot send anymore packets and wifi needs to be turned off and on kernel: [ 1791.266956] Pid: 7728, comm: kworker/u:0 Tainted: G O 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu kernel: [ 1791.266958] Call Trace: kernel: [ 1791.266968] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 kernel: [ 1791.266971] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 kernel: [ 1791.266980] [] brcms_c_wait_for_tx_completion+0x99/0xb0 [brcmsmac] kernel: [ 1791.266986] [] brcms_ops_flush+0x3b/0x60 [brcmsmac] kernel: [ 1791.267006] [] ieee80211_scan_work+0x34d/0x5e0 [mac80211] kernel: [ 1791.267013] [] ? finish_task_switch+0x4a/0xf0 kernel: [ 1791.267016] [] process_one_work+0x12a/0x420 kernel: [ 1791.267027] [] ? ieee80211_run_deferred_scan+0x80/0x80 [mac80211] kernel: [ 1791.267030] [] worker_thread+0x12e/0x2f0 kernel: [ 1791.267033] [] ? manage_workers.isra.26+0x200/0x200 kernel: [ 1791.267037] [] kthread+0x93/0xa0 kernel: [ 1791.267042] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 kernel: [ 1791.267046] [] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 kernel: [ 1791.267049] [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 kernel: [ 1791.267050] ---[ end trace 56f847a7c78d0da0 ]--- kernel: [ 2004.872993] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2006.035759] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2006.036162] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2006.546185] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2007.543524] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2008.542929] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.822335] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.868303] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.937553] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.953977] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.958060] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2408.976166] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.264878] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.766008] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.793456] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.807420] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.834179] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2409.994049] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2410.062283] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2410.067860] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2410.785801] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2410.837042] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2410.915746] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2411.060400] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2411.063439] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 NetworkManager: (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unavailable (reason 'none') [100 20 0] NetworkManager: (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') kernel: [ 2411.249095] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2411.276068] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 kernel: [ 2411.276755] ieee80211 phy0: >brcms_c_prec_enq_head: No where to go, prec == 4 NetworkManager: (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 1768