I have a baffling issue on a relatively fresh install of ubuntu 22.04. I noticed today that the internet was very slow on my laptop, but not on my phone or other laptops in the apartment. After some investigating, I noticed that any time the network connection went down, I had a process called kworker/28:2+events using 100% CPU when I ran top.
After checking /var/log/kern.log, I noticed that there was a message in there every time the kworker process popped up:
... ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requestedThis seems to happen every time I try to make any kind of connection. Further more, and somewhat unexpectedly, whenever I run a sudo command while the kworker process is active, the sudo command hangs until the kworker process finishes.
My understanding is that these kinds of issues generally relate to the kernel and some kind of bug within it. I notice on my software updater that there are kernel updates available, so I obviously want to try to get those updates, but... when I try to do that, I get hit with the hardware reset issue.
I am desparate to get this fixed as soon as possible, but I have no idea where to go from here. Any ideas?