Clean install on an old laptop with an intel dual core processor, 2GB of RAM and a 64GB Kingston SSD. Snappy machine still, especially with lightweight (ish) distro on it. I picked this because ive been a long time user of Mint (since about version 6 or 7, i cant remember exactly), and it has always been pretty stable. Ive never had this problem before.
Laptop is set up as a standalone computer for my 2 year old son to play with. It doesn't move, and it sits on the desk, with the lid closed and an external 22" monitor sitting on top of it. External keyboard and mouse also connected. Hardwired ethernet connected, wireless card turned off via the button on the machine. Load went smooth, no errors or problems, just like I've encountered countless times before with Linux Mint.
System booted up in seconds as expected with an SSD under the hood. Ran updates, then loaded GCompris and a few other kids games. System was SLIGHTLY sluggish, but mostly passed it off for being at or around a decade old. Noticed the fan running ALL THE TIME though and did not recall this machine needing to do that unless under load.
Ran HTOP and both cores were hovering right around 80% all the time. That explains the fan.
wpa_supplicant was the offending process, once I "sudo pkill wpa_supplicant" it goes away, but then immediately returns, and the CPU usage returns as well. If i type the command a few more times, it finally dies permanently, and the CPU usage drops to normal hovering between 0% and 5%. The fan then spins down and the rest of the session is fine until the system is restarted. I have to kill wpa_supplicant again in order to have a proper session.
Ive tried uninstalling wpa_supplicant, but it is tied to network manager and that gets removed as well. It did fix the problem, but then you have no network access, even on hard wired ethernet. If i try to re-add network manager, of course wpa_supplicant returns and so does the CPU usage.
Other than making a script to kill wpa_supplicant on every boot in, is there a way to permanently fix this problem? WPA indicates something wireless to me, and i don't even utilize wireless on this machine. So Im a bit baffled as I have never seen this issue before.
I did some googling and didnt find any suggestion other than to do what I already did, uninstall wpa_supplicant.
Maybe there is a good alternative to network manager? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Laptop is set up as a standalone computer for my 2 year old son to play with. It doesn't move, and it sits on the desk, with the lid closed and an external 22" monitor sitting on top of it. External keyboard and mouse also connected. Hardwired ethernet connected, wireless card turned off via the button on the machine. Load went smooth, no errors or problems, just like I've encountered countless times before with Linux Mint.
System booted up in seconds as expected with an SSD under the hood. Ran updates, then loaded GCompris and a few other kids games. System was SLIGHTLY sluggish, but mostly passed it off for being at or around a decade old. Noticed the fan running ALL THE TIME though and did not recall this machine needing to do that unless under load.
Ran HTOP and both cores were hovering right around 80% all the time. That explains the fan.
wpa_supplicant was the offending process, once I "sudo pkill wpa_supplicant" it goes away, but then immediately returns, and the CPU usage returns as well. If i type the command a few more times, it finally dies permanently, and the CPU usage drops to normal hovering between 0% and 5%. The fan then spins down and the rest of the session is fine until the system is restarted. I have to kill wpa_supplicant again in order to have a proper session.
Ive tried uninstalling wpa_supplicant, but it is tied to network manager and that gets removed as well. It did fix the problem, but then you have no network access, even on hard wired ethernet. If i try to re-add network manager, of course wpa_supplicant returns and so does the CPU usage.
Other than making a script to kill wpa_supplicant on every boot in, is there a way to permanently fix this problem? WPA indicates something wireless to me, and i don't even utilize wireless on this machine. So Im a bit baffled as I have never seen this issue before.
I did some googling and didnt find any suggestion other than to do what I already did, uninstall wpa_supplicant.
Maybe there is a good alternative to network manager? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!