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The weird thing is that it seems to be working? Either I misdiagnosed the problem, or maybe my old one was just broken.
These shit are so weird, breaks on windows works on Linux, doesn't work sometimes on boot and I have to restart my pc for it to work
modprobe, man
The modem chipset everywhere are a CPU in its own and a black box at that.
In your case it might go to sleep occasionally.
Intel WiFi. End of discussion.
Yep. Got an Intel AX210 Typhoon Peak in my (AMD) laptop. Never had a single issue. Their CPUs might be crap, but their wifi is the business.
@the_q @The_Picard_Maneuver reminder that intel ax series does not work with ax and even ac normally in most regions
mediatek?
I have a Mediatek MT7921K, it's using the mt7921e driver, 3 years ago the chip was new I think and not well supported in linux (problem with init/sleep/resume) but a lot of people fixed it, and mediatek released new firmware, and the driver is rock solid for about 3 years now, I'm using it on my daily driver working PC 8h/day, 0 problem, and use a BLE keyboard and trackball too.
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You could try switching your wifi backend to iwd instead of wpa_supplicant.
If you're using NetworkManager, then create the file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf, and add the following configuration:
[device]
wifi.backend=iwd
If it's periodically dropping, I doubt that it's going to be the userspace WiFi backend. I'd be more-inclined to blame either the driver or an (unlabeled) hardware variation.
I had this exact issue with both my desktop and server. Anytime I put any sort of load on the outbound connection, the wifi would cut out. After switching to the iwd backend, I haven't had any issues.
Fair enough!
Just curious but what distro are you using?
I might be able to help in my spare time
Pop OS. It seems to be working for now, but I think my next step if it happens again will be to just use ethernet and call it a day.
Ethernet is the way.