In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
Guys, since some days I have some issue with my laptop dropping connection for 1 seconds every minutes when I use it (it works correctly when idling even with the same softwares open) I don't know if this is my VPN or my laptop internal wifi adapter that broke. I tried to use to switch to multiples VPN servers and the problem keeps happening so I'm guessing that it's an issue with the adapter I had some (unrelated) massive connection issue for weeks before where the connection dropped globally every 30 seconds and since then this appeared so I suspect that this caused the problem, any idea how I can debug this? (mainly see what the kernel/firmware see when the connection drop)

In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
I don't think wireshark can see problems coming from the hardware

dmesg is filled with:

[28355.071801] wlp3s0: disconnect from AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX for new auth to YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY
[28355.093904] wlp3s0: authenticate with YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY
[28355.097240] wlp3s0: send auth to YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY (try 1/3)
[28355.098103] wlp3s0: authenticated
[28355.098511] wlp3s0: waiting for beacon from YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY
[28355.108976] wlp3s0: associate with YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY (try 1/3)
[28355.110230] wlp3s0: RX ReassocResp from YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY (capab=0x421 status=17 aid=0)
[28355.110235] wlp3s0: YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY denied association (code=17)
[28355.112261] audit: type=1111 audit(1579541013.206:236): pid=500 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=networking-control arg="global-dns-configuration" pid=506 uid=0 result=success exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[28355.322156] wlp3s0: authenticate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
[28355.324996] wlp3s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)
[28355.357146] audit: type=1130 audit(1579541013.449:237): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=NetworkManager-dispatcher comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[28355.399447] wlp3s0: authenticated
[28355.402257] wlp3s0: associate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)
[28355.403760] wlp3s0: RX AssocResp from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
[28355.422783] wlp3s0: associated
[28355.500615] wlp3s0: Limiting TX power to 20 (20 - 0) dBm as advertised by XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
[28357.135666] audit: type=1111 audit(1579541015.229:238): pid=500 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=networking-control arg="global-dns-configuration" pid=506 uid=0 result=success exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

I guess that's related, any idea guys?

In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
I don't think that's the case though

In reply to @blushedpenguin:matrix.org
Do you have multiple aps?

In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
I have a spare USB one, so that's really not a big deal

In reply to @blushedpenguin:matrix.org
I ment multiple access point at your location. It looks like you got disconnected and when it grabbed the next available ap it failed to authenticate so it jumped back. I can't remember the name of the protocol but some Cisco aps can be setup to disconnect a user below a certain db threshold so they connect to a better ap. It works great unless the app you connect to is misconfigured.

In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
Oh yeah, I suppose there are multiples since this is a connection for my whole building, but still it doesn't happen in other wireless devices (phone/tablet)

In reply to @thefrenchghosty:privacytools.io
Nope since I don't have any issue

In reply to @blushedpenguin:matrix.org
Other than mounting the partition an inspecting the contents is there a quick way to uniquely identify similar drives? I've got 5 120gb ssds but I hate running through the list mounting them verytime when I'm using gparted.