Wifi on new framework 13 with fedora 42 is awful

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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sometimes fails or gets unbearably slow while it’s worked fine on every other device i’ve used at home. does the framework ship with a terrible wifi card? or is it bad drivers? how are you supposed to fix this?

i followed the exact documented instructions here to install fedora when i got this device. was this operating system a bad recommendation from framework? it’s been very frustrating, and it feels like the documentation is very poor.

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It’s a bad Wi-Fi card. Fedora is fine. I’d recommend swapping the Wi-Fi card for an Intel AX210, which is less than $20. There’s a guide for doing that here:

There are a few other posts about this issue:

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You can also swap the Mediatek card with a Qualcomm QCNCM865, A WiFi7 card.

I’ve been using the QCNCM865 for months, it was hard in the beginning, but is way more stable now, also it is night and day difference comparing both with the mediatek and the Intel AX210 (that I used to have in it, as the Mediatek is awful), the Intel one is really Lazy and does not stay on 6GHz, even on the same room as the AP, it aways switch back to 5GHz, which is terrible where I live, as the 5GHz band is completely used up.

You can find some discussion about the QCNCM865 on Fedora/Arch here

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It is bad drivers + firmware.
What is your firmware version?
dmesg | grep mt7925e

Latest is 20250526152947a
Get it from here , instructions here TLDR: copy the files to /lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7925
Also check Fedora is up to date. Some distros update firmware.

For drivers the only way is to update the kernel. Current is 6.15.6 (beware of 6.15.5, it had USB issues)

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