Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.9-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (11.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 890M Graphics
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series)
BIOS Version: 04.02
I just recently received my DIY 13 Pro and have been seeing issues with the WiFi right out of the box. Connectivity(bit rate) is much slower than my other devices and the connection will drop randomly. My system has also been constantly asking me to reenter the WiFi password saying it is wrong when i know it it correct.
Is this a driver issue, a distro issue, or a bad WiFi card issue? Any insight would be appreciated.
The Mediatek cards that the machines come with have pretty bad Linux support. I had your same issues, and what I eventually wound up doing was buying an AX210 which seems to have solved the problem.
Really? Even for the Pro? One of the reasons I purchased it was for the Linux compatibility they advertised.
Yeah, I assumed the same lol. Why they are putting them in machines meant for Linux would be a fantastic question to ask them, I think.
The MediaTek MT7922 (RZ616) Wi-Fi card generally offers subpar and inconsistent performance on Linux, frequently suffering from random disconnects, high latency spikes, and slower throughput compared to Windows. [1, 2, 3]
You can check for yourself what you have (sudo lspci | grep -i 'wi.*fi'); hopefully they have stopped putting those ones in new machines, but I haven’t heard of it happening yet.
AX210s are $18 in the Framework shop. They work fine as far as I can tell.
Konsole says mine is a MT925 which also has the same issues as the 922 on Linux. Seeing a lot of forums with packages recommendations to fix it. Not sure if I will go with that or buy the better card
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Is the AX210 compatible with AMD Ryzen AI CPUs. Frameworks website says no but a quick internet search says yes
Frameworks website says no but a quick internet search says yes
That’s very weird… I won’t try to tell you authoritatively one way or the other honestly. To me it should obviously be compatible since it is just a wifi card (and apparently people have tested - ignore the guy who’s talking about IRQ settings on his Pentium; he is hallucinating a problem on modern systems that hasn’t been any issue for decades).
I had serious WiFi issues with my Framework Pro 13 (Intel) as well. Basically got about 0.5% throughput on my WiFi. That issue was solved by the latest kernel update to Fedora (I think it is 7.1.10)
My best guess is that it was related to some advanced features of WiFi 7 on my UniFi gear but I did not have time to tinker with those settings due to my kids being monsters… And then the kernel update fixed it all.
So try to see if 7.1.10 fixes things for you. And make sure to install the linux-firmware package if you haven’t done so already
Running Bazzite right now with linux kernel 7.2.0 and I’m having some weirdness as well. I seem to be limited to 250 Mbps, and sometimes my wifi connects but shows “no network” until I turn off and turn on the wifi again. (Yes other devices are working flawlessly)
The 13 Pro comes with Intel’s BE211, which is the latest and greatest - it even supports Bluetooh 6.0. I’ve been using mine for a little over a week now (13 Pro 358H Batch 3) with Ubuntu 26.04 and have noticed no problems with wifi so far.
Updating to the latest 7.2 kernel seems to resolved the wifi issues. Working great now.
Also, I have an AMD machine, not an Intel. Pointing this since a lot of comments have been about Intel machines