I'm using an internal network card, one of those newer Cheap-o TP-Link wireless network adapter to the PCI slot.
So the the thing is my internet connection will work up until some random point in time triggered by no apparent reason, I could be gaming or I could be running `sudo apt install texlive-full`. Sometimes it'll work for literal seconds, sometimes hours at a time. This started happening before running a 6.5 kernel. Last week when I was on linux mint kernel=5.15.100, XFCE. I read a couple posts and tried running `ip address` and `host -v google.com` commands to give you more info. After being unable to find a solution I decided to start fresh with a fresh Linux Mint install with newest kernel version. For the first week I was OK, until today. Below are results of running commands above with both linux mint installs. Note that I remain connected to the wifi access point.
Linux Mint Vanessa Cinammon 21.3, Kernel 6.3
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# WORKING STATE
$ ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether d8:5e:d3:43:03:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp7s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:b0:24:d2:db:c5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.44/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp7s0
valid_lft 3548sec preferred_lft 3548sec
inet6 fe80::508d:1be3:ed25:8925/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
pato@qtpi:~$ host -v google.com
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37463
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 19 IN A 216.58.202.110
Received 44 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 4 ms
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10979
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 194 IN AAAA 2800:3f0:4002:80c::200e
Received 56 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 20 ms
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38966
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 300 IN MX 10 smtp.google.com.
Received 49 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 40 ms
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Waiting for it to happen again...
Linux Mint Vanessa XFCE 21.3, Kernel 5.15
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# WORKING STATE:
$ ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether d8:5e:d3:43:03:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp7s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:b0:24:d2:db:c5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.44/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp7s0
valid_lft 3358sec preferred_lft 3358sec
inet6 fe80::8244:3bc:a86a:3709/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: docker0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:b1:9b:86:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
pato@qtpi:~$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp7s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp7s0 scope link metric 1000
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp7s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.44 metric 600
pato@qtpi:~$ host -v google.com
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17281
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 281 IN A 142.250.79.142
Received 44 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 64 ms
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63491
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 80 IN AAAA 2800:3f0:4002:813::200e
Received 56 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 48 ms
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33841
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 300 IN MX 10 smtp.google.com.
Received 49 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 60 ms
pato@qtpi:~$
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$ ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether d8:5e:d3:43:03:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp7s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:b0:24:d2:db:c5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.44/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp7s0
valid_lft 3450sec preferred_lft 3450sec
inet6 fe80::8244:3bc:a86a:3709/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: docker0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:b1:9b:86:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
pato@qtpi:~$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp7s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp7s0 scope link metric 1000
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp7s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.44 metric 600
pato@qtpi:~$ host -v google.com
Trying "google.com"
Host google.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Received 28 bytes from 127.0.0.53#53 in 892 ms
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$ neofetch
...-:::::-... pato@qtpi
.-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-. ---------
.-MMMM`..-:::::::-..`MMMM-. OS: Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64
.:MMMM.:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:.MMMM:. Host: B660M DS3H DDR4
-MMM-M---MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.MMM- Kernel: 6.5.0-26-generic
`:MMM:MM` :MMMM:....::-...-MMMM:MMM:` Uptime: 42 mins
:MMM:MMM` :MM:` `` `` `:MMM:MMM: Packages: 2355 (dpkg), 9 (flatpak)
.MMM.MMMM` :MM. -MM. .MM- `MMMM.MMM. Shell: bash 5.1.16
:MMM:MMMM` :MM. -MM- .MM: `MMMM-MMM: Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
:MMM:MMMM` :MM. -MM- .MM: `MMMM:MMM: DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4
:MMM:MMMM` :MM. -MM- .MM: `MMMM-MMM: WM: Mutter (Muffin)
.MMM.MMMM` :MM:--:MM:--:MM: `MMMM.MMM. WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Purple (Mint-Y
:MMM:MMM- `-MMMMMMMMMMMM-` -MMM-MMM: Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Purple [GTK2/3]
:MMM:MMM:` `:MMM:MMM: Icons: Mint-Y-Purple [GTK2/3]
.MMM.MMMM:--------------:MMMM.MMM. Terminal: gnome-terminal
'-MMMM.-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-.MMMM-' CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-12400F (12) @
'.-MMMM``--:::::--``MMMM-.' GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT
'-MMMMMMMMMMMMM-' Memory: 6288MiB / 31928MiB
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