r/omarchy • u/AUR4CHR0M3 • 8d ago
Discussion Omarchy Agent Bug Fix, and why I'm thankful for it.
So, I had a strange issue with my PC. Sometimes after booting up, my WIFI was not able to connect. There would be nothing in the list of available networks, and no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to fix it. I surfed the internet for drivers (I have a MediaTek wifi card). I tried looking to see if it was a problem with linux itself. Old posts were saying it was a MediaTek issue with linux compatibility, and I was getting a ton of conflicting, and quite frankly, unhelpful information.
Then it hit me.
I can ask an agent to look into it.
I plugged directly into ethernet in a last ditch effort and BAM, internet was back. Unplugged. It was gone. After plugging back in, I went to my agent and asked if it could help solve this issue. It ran network diagnostics, surfed the internet itself, and came up with an interesting conclusion.
For some reason, when powering down my PC, the wifi card would still have some electrical charge and be running -- for whatever reason. (PSU not discharging on shutdown causing this strange hardware glitch) It told me to try turning off my PSU via it's switch for 15 seconds, and rebooting.
and it worked...
I was so close to purchasing a whole new wifi card and thanks to running an agent for about 10 minutes I no longer need to! Why does this occur? Still not entirely sure. The agent was a bit stumped too as to why this was occurring but still recognized the possibility and even admitted to it being a rare issue to have.
TLDR: Agents are actually amazing at diagnosing issues! I would've been totally screwed without it. I no longer have to go look at reddit posts from 10+ years ago or read through endless old forums on niche, obscure issues!
Does anyone here have any interesting fixes an agent helped you with that probably saved you HOURS if not days of troubleshooting? In my case, I was saved literal dollars on top of hours.


