Wifi nonsense lately

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Arch

6.17.9
AI Ryzen 370
Wifi 7 card from AMD

The last week has been horrible for Wifi. On/Off/On/Off/On/Off just cannot seem to hold steady. Anyone else experiencing this kind of flake behaviour? Curious if this is a regression in the Driver code for the Wifi card. It was stable and reliable for a few months there, without this kind of on/off/on/off nonsense.

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Hello David,

There are two things which help. They either work separately, or in combination with each other.

  1. Disable wifi power saving
    Wifi cards have power-saving functionalities. They can be disabled. If you are using NetworkManager, create the following at /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/powersave.conf
[connection]
wifi.powersave=2
  1. Setting the correct regulatory domain

Make sure you set the right wireless regulatory domain. Each country’s government allows for different radio frequencies to be used for Wi-Fi. If you check the optional dependencies for linux, you can see the package wireless-regdb. Install the package, and uncomment your country in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom.