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  • Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi

    From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to All on Tue Sep 1 12:00:36 2026
    I recently switched from EndeavourOS(Arch) to Lubuntu when my HP laptop died. I got a newer old ASUS and am using that now. I had no problem running the board with Arch and the HP, but am having some issues with ASus and Lubuntu.

    My wi-fi keeps changing my address on the laptop. I have an Eero router and am usining Eero+ for better security. This happens every couple or three hours.

    What I have done:
    1. I have disabled powersaving. I went into Network Manager and I edited this file: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
    I changed the wifi.powersave from a 3 to a 2.

    2. In LXQT, I turned off the screen saver.

    Questions:
    1. Eero+ has it's own DNS service to help with security. Could this be affecting it? Not using 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8?
    I like the extra security, but I can turn it off and lose it.

    2. I don't know anything else. Any suggestions?

    Change DHCP and NAT to manual?
    I do have a reservation and port forwarding set for the laptop. The address keeps changing from XXX.XXX.X.90 to 91 and vice versa. I just change the reservation address and things work again. It's just getting monotonous.

    Grease (Will)

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Grease on Tue Sep 1 12:41:47 2026
    Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
    By: Grease to All on Tue Sep 01 2026 12:00 pm

    2. I don't know anything else. Any
    suggestions?

    This is totally between the wifi client
    and the DHCP server, and shouldn't be
    affected by anything else like DNS or
    whatever. Power saving? I suppose,
    maybe, if for some reason your DHCP
    server thought the first IP was already
    in use and had to assign a different
    one.. But what I was thinking about was
    that there is often a setting for MAC
    address security... which I think tries
    to randomize your MAC address on wifi
    networks to prevent tracking. Do you
    have any setting like that anywhere?

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  • From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to phigan on Tue Sep 1 21:41:50 2026
    Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
    By: phigan to Grease on Tue Sep 01 2026 12:41 pm

    thinking about was that there is often a setting for MAC address security... which I think tries to randomize your MAC address on wifi networks to prevent tracking. Do you have any setting like that anywhere?

    I see nothing, but the MAC address of the wi-fi. The only thing I see is Eero+. It's supposed to be some type of enhanced security. I'm going to turn it off and see what happens.

    Grease (Will)

    ...Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

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  • From Bryn@VERT/EOTLBBS to Grease on Tue Sep 15 17:38:55 2026
    Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
    By: Grease to phigan on Tue Sep 01 2026 21:41:50

    Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
    By: phigan to Grease on Tue Sep 01 2026 12:41 pm

    thinking about was that there is often a setting for MAC address security... which I think tries to randomize
    your MAC address on wifi networks to prevent tracking. Do you have any setting like that anywhere?

    I see nothing, but the MAC address of the wi-fi. The only thing I see is Eero+. It's supposed to be some type of
    enhanced security. I'm going to turn it off and see what happens.

    Grease (Will)

    ...Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

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

    xo
    Bryn

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  • From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to Bryn on Sat Sep 19 13:23:43 2026
    Re: Lubuntu Kicking off wi-fi
    By: Bryn to Grease on Tue Sep 15 2026 05:38 pm

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