Framework 13 AMD AI Wifi Issue on Arch Linux

No, I meant I had this issues with the Mediatek Card. With intel it’s fine so far.
Meeting over several hours with no interrupt.

As it is a process of elimination and powersave absolutely does limit power and signal strength, the recommendation remains. Thanks for your feedback.

Okay folks, we are seeing reports rolling in that there is stability improvements showing with kernel 6.15.4 - so if you are on Fedora or similar please test against this kernel.


The powersave disable recommendation is a personal choice, if you value signal strength, it’s worth disabling - it by design affects signal strength and consistency. Placing a radio into a lower power state is just that, lowering the power state and that in turn, can affect stability. :slightly_smiling_face: This is and will always be part of the troubleshooting process as it make sense to eliminate one cause from another.


-Mediatek in general-

We saw something similar with the previous Mediatek card, over time updates sorted out drops and other oddness.

I appreciate everyone’s feedback and thoughts, experiences. I especially appreciate any indicators of improvements after updates to one’s distro install to a later kernel/firmware and also in some instances, router firmware updates (I witnessed this with Eero mesh myself with the previous Mediatek generation - results were instant)

What i noticed with 6.15.4 is that the initial connection is weird. I have Unifi wifi 7 APs configured for MLO. Checking the output of iw wlp192s0 info it seems to first connect only via a single link. Then it disconnects and negotiates a dual link MLO connection. Depending on where I am this is usually a 6ghz + 2.4ghz link or a 6ghz + 5ghz link.

The problem is 6ghz range isn’t great. So when move out of 6ghz range, it seems like it completely drops the connection and renegotiates all over.

But, if I’m sitting in a stable location, after that initial “handshake” things are pretty decent.

I should try connecting to my non-MLO SSID and see if I get better overall stability. Although I don’t think I can avoid the 6ghz range/reconnection issue if I physicall move out of 6ghz range.