Linux Wifi Disconnects

I bought a framework a little while back and have consistently had trouble with the wifi card. My setup is Manjaro Linux with XMonad as DE. The problem I have is:

  1. Bootup, connect to wifi
  2. Browser for a while, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours
  3. Wifi will be connected, but internet cuts out. Webpages won’t load and simple things like ping google.com also fail on DNS resolution.
  4. I checked journalctl --boot since this just happened and don’t see anything relevant
  5. To fix, I can manually turn wifi on/off or I run systemctl restart NetworkManager. This usually fixes it, but then the issue will come back at some random time later.

I would love to get to the root of this and fix it, any suggestions on what to look for or just fixes?

Hardware: Framework DIY Edition, Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro

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██████████████████  ████████   entilzha@minbar 
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██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: Laptop AB 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 11 hours, 8 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1714 (pacman) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: fish 3.4.1 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 2256x1504 
████████  ████████  ████████   DE: xmonad 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: LG3D 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: Adwaita [GTK2], Adw-dark [GTK3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: Adwaita [GTK2], Papirus-Dark [GTK3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: kitty 
                               CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4.700GHz 
                               GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] 
                               Memory: 3672MiB / 15790MiB 

                                                       
                                                       

Check if this setting will help:

Thanks! I’ll give that a try, although with iwconfig I see that the power management is already off, so I suspect it might be something else. In any case, I’ll report back when I know if this works or not (the nature of random DCs makes it hard to reproduce on demand…).

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Are you using a Wifi6 router at home? If so, try disabling it:

Is it actual connection failure or only DNS failure?

Next time it happens, do

ping 1.1.1.1

If that falls,

ping

That will tell you more than browser behavior