The good news, got my Ryzen AI HX 370 laptop yesterday. Put it all together, and got fedora 42 (my prefered OS) and windows (my secondary gaming OS) dual booting and working. Pretty simple process.
Bad news, 6ghz wifi (Unifi 7 Pro units) does not work well.
RZ717 doesn’t support 320mhz.. oh well
Basically won’t connect to 6ghz or when it does, it’s extremely unstable and dies within seconds.
I’ve tried a number of workarounds that seem to have worked with the older 616 adapters, but none have made things work well here. I also can’t seem to get it to force to connect to 5ghz so I added an additional WIFI network that only uses 2.4/5.0 that just this laptop connects to.
Not great, but I wanted to just get it stable enough to finish setting it up. Willl debug the wifi issue further when I get a chance. Mostly posting this to see if others have seen this and gotten further with a solution than I have.
I had a number of issues with the RZ717 in my new Framework 13 and tried a bunch of workarounds to no avail. I decided to swap the Wi-Fi chip for an $18 Intel AX210 (using this nice guide) and it’s so much better. I can connect in places the RZ717 couldn’t, the signal is stronger everywhere, and it hasn’t disconnected on its own.
I honestly don’t get the point of the Rz717. It doesn’t appear to support mlo or 320mhz. I don’t know that there’s anything else wifi 7 offers over 6e that’s compelling. Right now using it at 5ghz is fine and all I really need so I’ll probably wait a little longer to see if the driver situation for the RZ717 improves. If it doesn’t, I’m leaning toward the qualcomm QCNCM865 option as well, but that doesn’t have mature kernel-mainlined drivers.
Fedora users. An update came through last night/early today that has addressed the wifi dropping issue on Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series).
Do a dnf update asap. Updates have resolved this on every tested Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series) here.
I had switched to a QCNCM865 but have had intermittent problems with that one. Namely that it hangs frequently. So back to the RZ717. In messing with the RZ717 i do notice it does indeed support MLO. works fine in windows. I can’t figure out how to tell on Linux whether MLO is working or not though. But it does seem stable now in all frequencies.
I too am having a stable connection, but slow speeds. What kind of speeds are you getting? I’ve never seen over 90Mbps with this RZ717 on Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu), whilst Windows on the same machine is giving me 904Mbps.
This is local openspeedtest using 6ghz on Fedora 42. No MLO support yet.
On windows with MLO I get pretty close to maxing out gigabit. I have unifi 7 apis but only backed by gigabit switches)
5ghz it’s closer to 500gbit speeds on both linux and windows.
Yeah the QCNCM865 was a little faster than the RZ717 but my issue was anytime i tried to switch APs it hung the wifi stack. I’m guessing there’s still some growing pains with the drivers. The RZ717 has been surprisingly more stable once I got the wireless-regdb update. And it’s speeds are fast enough.
