not quite sure it’s a software problem, but i’d like to ask the forum’s advice nonetheless. my wifi connection keeps dropping and it seems to be getting worse over time. it used to be 100%, now only when the laptop is idle for a while, i always come back to a broken connection i have to manually start again by disabling and enabling wifi connections. this gets pretty tiresome, but also means i can’t rely on the computer for remote connections any more as it will be disconnected in 3-4 hours after i leave home. not sure what is going wrong as the network portion of my setup has been unchanged for about a year? also my router has been the same for about that long as well, and i don’t mess with that either. i know i could start by enabling wpa_supplicant, but i’d rather ask here because i want to understand why it disconnects, and even more important, why it doesn’t automatically connect again after it disconnects like it should, and it used to do. in the graphical user interface LXQt provides there’s a single wifi network with an automatic reconnect enabled, so it is not the case of competing network connections messing with each-other. if the the stuff quoted isn’t enough to diagnose this (probably isn’t), please tell me what else i should be looking at:
ifconfig
enp0s31f6: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 16 memory 0xec200000-ec220000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 574 bytes 75762 (73.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 574 bytes 75762 (73.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp59s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.88.245 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.88.255
inet6 fe80::c5c8:ba33:4439:ef6d prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1077715 bytes 1073864117 (1.0 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 594499 bytes 157983314 (150.6 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
configuration.nix
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
<nixos-hardware/lenovo/thinkpad/x280> # sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/archive/master.tar.gz nixos-hardware && sudo nix-channel --update
];
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/nvme0n1";
boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;
boot.loader.timeout = 1;
boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "ntfs" ];
networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
# networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
# Configure network proxy if necessary
# networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
# networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";
# Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Enable network manager applet
programs.nm-applet.enable = true;
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "Europe/Budapest";
# Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "en_GB.UTF-8";
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_MEASUREMENT = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_MONETARY = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_NAME = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_NUMERIC = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_PAPER = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_TELEPHONE = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
LC_TIME = "hu_HU.UTF-8";
};
# Enable the X11 windowing system.
services.xserver.enable = true;
# Enable the LXQT Desktop Environment.
services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.lxqt.enable = true;
# Configure keymap in X11
services.xserver = {
layout = "hu";
xkbVariant = "";
xkbOptions = "caps:ctrl_modifier";
};
# Configure console keymap
console.keyMap = "hu";
# Enable CUPS to print documents.
services.printing.enable = true;
# Enable sound with pipewire.
sound.enable = true;
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
# If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
#jack.enable = true;
# use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
# no need to redefine it in your config for now)
#media-session.enable = true;
};
# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
# services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.user = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = "user";
extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
packages = with pkgs; [
# firefox
# thunderbird
ungoogled-chromium
ffmpeg
losslesscut-bin
leafpad
xorg.xkill
# gimp
krita
pkgs.djview
qpdfview
calibre
p7zip
ktimer
arandr
xclip
scantailor
screen
ventoy-bin
aria2
pkgs.pv
cron
galculator
weechat
qbittorrent
anydesk # this has caused problems before with updating
nomachine-client
mpv
trash-cli
openjdk
lxqt.qlipper
libsForQt5.kcharselect
chirp
brightnessctl
par2cmdline
openai-whisper
syncthing
pb_cli
inkscape
winbox
yt-dlp
iperf
synergy
moonlight-qt
tlp # sudo tlp setcharge 50 65 BAT0 # good for battery
gpsbabel-gui
gpxsee-qt6
sunwait
xdotool
ecasound
mumble
wakeonlan
libreoffice-qt
streamlink
gpodder
flameshot
pngquant
fswebcam
plocate
fstl
samba
slskd
kiwix
python3
fastfetch
hardinfo
sonobus
croc
git-get
];
};
# Enable automatic login for the user.
services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.user = "user";
# Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
# $ nix search wget
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
# wget
atkinson-hyperlegible
python311Packages.google-api-python-client
python311Packages.pip
tt-rss
tt-rss-theme-feedly
libgen-cli
];
# Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
# started in user sessions.
# programs.mtr.enable = true;
# programs.gnupg.agent = {
# enable = true;
# enableSSHSupport = true;
# };
# List services that you want to enable:
# Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
# services.openssh.enable = true;
# Open ports in the firewall.
# networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
networking.firewall.enable = false;
# This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
# settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
# on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
# this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
# Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
# (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
system.stateVersion = "23.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}