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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

There's still tons of devices where Linux doesn't work properly with them.

My Intel wireless cards cannot maintain a 6ghz wireless connection for shit despite some of them being over 5 years old. And Intel. Latest stuff, older kernels, none work well. Oddly whatever version of Fedora I had worked the best. My wifi wasn't unusable when 6ghz was an option. It only dropped to 5/2.4ghz once a minute instead of every 5-20 seconds.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    For me any Wi-Fi drops were solved by disabling power saving in NetworkManager

    Create a conf file:
    sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-powersave.conf

    Add this into the config file:

    [connection]
    wifi.powersave = 2
    

    Then restart NetworkManager or reboot your system

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  • I tried this but it didn't seem to help. Mostly because it only wants to use 5ghz. I think I tried doing a bunch of "fixes" so maybe I should just start fresh. This is on my testing machine that I don't use regularly so only god knows what I've done to it.

    Also did you do this on a laptop with S0 standby? How does that affect sleep?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    My guess is that you are noticing the difference between new and old kernels

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Sure, but that doesn't change that it's regressed since that one version and still hasn't been re fixed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If the old (or LTS) version of the kernel doesn't support something newer, and the new version of the kernel does, that would not be a regression.

    I learned this when Skylake first came out. Ubuntu LTS didn't work on it because it was an old kernel and this was new hardware. If you have new hardware, use a new kernel.

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