Wifi keeps dropping out.
DOOMMARINE117 opened this issue · 26 comments
is there a way to have it not to do that?
Not without more details. What chip do you have? What signal strength? What shows in the dmesg log?
None of my rtw89 chips ever drop their connection. On occasion, I will get a reconnect, but those are rare.
Not without more details. What chip do you have? What signal strength? What shows in the dmesg log?
None of my rtw89 chips ever drop their connection. On occasion, I will get a reconnect, but those are rare.
It's a realtek chip I believe.
Sounds like I may be missing something else if I'm dropping connection.
I found the log.
my signal strength is 5.785 gz. my signal level dBM is 36.
The 5.785 GHz is the frequency, not a signal strength. A strength of 36 dBm is way too large - abour 4 watts. For a strong signal it should be about -40 dBm of 10^-7 watts. The scale is logarithmic.
Run the command 'sudo dmesg -t > dmesg.txt' and attach the file dmesg.txt to this issue. Once I see that, I will likely have more commands for you to run.
here's the file
The dmesg, there are lines like
[UFW BLOCK] IN=wlo1 OUT= MAC=10:68:38:78:0f:d4:f4:69:42:b3:0a:e4:08:00 SRC=18.190.141.247 DST=192.168.1.141 LEN=83 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=236 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=43428 WINDOW=119 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0
These come from your your firewall. They say that IP address 18.190.141.247 is trying to reach 192.168.1.141, which is on your LAN. I have no idea what machine has the local address, but nslookup says that source address belongs to AWS. There are a number of different sources. The first 3 translate to the following:
247.141.190.18.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-18-190-141-247.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
120.120.132.3.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-3-132-120-120.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
239.159.92.190.in-addr.arpa name = server.valknuden.com.
After a number of those, it appears that you rebooted the system.
I have no idea what you are trying to do with source port 443, which is redirested to a number of destination ports; however, every indication is that the wifi driver is working fine. It is your setup that is interferring with traffic.
The dmesg, there are lines like
[UFW BLOCK] IN=wlo1 OUT= MAC=10:68:38:78:0f:d4:f4:69:42:b3:0a:e4:08:00 SRC=18.190.141.247 DST=192.168.1.141 LEN=83 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=236 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=43428 WINDOW=119 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0
These come from your your firewall. They say that IP address 18.190.141.247 is trying to reach 192.168.1.141, which is on your LAN. I have no idea what machine has the local address, but nslookup says that source address belongs to AWS. There are a number of different sources. The first 3 translate to the following:
247.141.190.18.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-18-190-141-247.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com 120.120.132.3.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-3-132-120-120.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com. 239.159.92.190.in-addr.arpa name = server.valknuden.com.
After a number of those, it appears that you rebooted the system.
I have no idea what you are trying to do with source port 443, which is redirested to a number of destination ports; however, every indication is that the wifi driver is working fine. It is your setup that is interferring with traffic.
really? is there a way to fix this? i tried to setup manually way before. but didnt workout.
how to have it stop interfering with it?
valknuden is a social media website. so i turn off the location cookie and amazon too.
No site should be reaching back into your computer unless it is responding to your requests for information. I do not know if that is what is happening here, but if it is, the firewall should ignore them.
Try disabling your firewall as a test and determine what happens. I do not know what distro you are using, and I know nothing of configuring UFW. I have used Linux for many years, and only use the firewall in my router. I have never had any problems.
No site should be reaching back into your computer unless it is responding to your requests for information. I do not know if that is what is happening here, but if it is, the firewall should ignore them.
Try disabling your firewall as a test and determine what happens. I do not know what distro you are using, and I know nothing of configuring UFW. I have used Linux for many years, and only use the firewall in my router. I have never had any problems.
i went ahead and disable firewall. that increase it up to signal level 43
Disabling the firewall cannot increase the signal level.
I forgot to tell you how to measure signal level. Run the command
sudo iw dev wlo1 scan | egrep "signal|SSID|freq"
You will see matched lines such as
freq: 5745
signal: -71.00 dBm
SSID: NETGEAR81-5G
Those 3 belong to a single AP/band combination. Find your SSID and report all 3 lines for that entry.
Disabling the firewall cannot increase the signal level.
I forgot to tell you how to measure signal level. Run the command sudo iw dev wlo1 scan | egrep "signal|SSID|freq"
You will see matched lines such as freq: 5745 signal: -71.00 dBm SSID: NETGEAR81-5G Those 3 belong to a single AP/band combination. Find your SSID and report all 3 lines for that entry.
i found them.
freq: 5745
signal: -57.00 dBm
SSID:
freq: 5785
signal: -34.00 dBm
SSID: SpectrumSetup-E3
* SSID List
* center freq segment 1: 155
* center freq segment 2: 0
so what to do next?
The only reason that I have seen for "dropping" out was caused by the rest of your system. I have no idea what distro you are using, but I would get rid of it. The network-handling of user space seems to be really buggy.
The only reason that I have seen for "dropping" out was caused by the rest of your system. I have no idea what distro you are using, but I would get rid of it. The network-handling of user space seems to be really buggy.
sounds like its on the distro then. im using linux mint 21.2 should i switch over to a different one?
i also realzied. i was viewing my drivers list.
i have device-2 oon with 8812au/8821au installed cause i wasnt sure at the time when doing linux of finding the right driver at the time.
how do you remove device-2?
this is when i type in inxi-Nn
I have no idea what you did. If you have two different drivers for the same device, you need to uninstall one of them.
I have no idea what you did. If you have two different drivers for the same device, you need to uninstall one of them.
i have tried to remove it. but it doesnt appear on the terminal.
is there a way around it?
nevermind. it seems its attach to the wifi adapter that i have.
if i were to switch to a different distro, what distro should i go too? MX Linux, https://novos-wiki.novusy.cf/ , RebornOS, Drauger os and endeavour os?
None of those. All of them are niche products that do not get as much usage as more mainline distros. What desktop are you using?
I would go with one of the more-mainline distros such as Fedora, Ububtu, Debian, or openSUSE. The latter is my distro of choice. OpenSUSE's main advantage is that they offer a number of desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) at installation time, not by choosing a different download file. In fact, if you were to choose openUSE Tumbleweed, your wifi would be handled "out-of-the box" with no further actions required. Tumbleweed is a rolling release with daily updates, which may not be good for you, but it just works. :) OpenSUSE's Leap 15.5 version has a repo that has the rtw89 drivers, thus they also work with very little effort.
None of those. All of them are niche products that do not get as much usage as more mainline distros. What desktop are you using?
I would go with one of the more-mainline distros such as Fedora, Ububtu, Debian, or openSUSE. The latter is my distro of choice. OpenSUSE's main advantage is that they offer a number of desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) at installation time, not by choosing a different download file. In fact, if you were to choose openUSE Tumbleweed, your wifi would be handled "out-of-the box" with no further actions required. Tumbleweed is a rolling release with daily updates, which may not be good for you, but it just works. :) OpenSUSE's Leap 15.5 version has a repo that has the rtw89 drivers, thus they also work with very little effort.
I'm using a amd Ryzen 7 laptop. I switched from Nvidia.
The hardware is compatible with Linux and all desktops. Your desktop is likely Cinnamon. If you install openSUSE Leap15.5 and select the XFCE desktop at installation, you will be getting a desktop very near to the one you are using.
I know the networking user-mode software works fine with openSUSE. It definitely was not working in Mint.
The hardware is compatible with Linux and all desktops. Your desktop is likely Cinnamon. If you install openSUSE Leap15.5 and select the XFCE desktop at installation, you will be getting a desktop very near to the one you are using.
I know the networking user-mode software works fine with openSUSE. It definitely was not working in Mint.
i see. so sounds like linux mint needs more work than i thought. many said it was good. but, they never mention the buggy part.
so is opensuse a operating system too?
can it be used for gaming?
It is a Linux distro. They package the various desktops and other things just like other distros do. I think they take a lot more precautions to catch bugs before they reach the user.
OpenSUSE supports gaming just like most others. Good gaming is a matter of the video driver. For best performance, you will need to use the drivers from nVidia. BTW, openSUSE packages them too.
It is a Linux distro. They package the various desktops and other things just like other distros do. I think they take a lot more precautions to catch bugs before they reach the user.
OpenSUSE supports gaming just like most others. Good gaming is a matter of the video driver. For best performance, you will need to use the drivers from nVidia. BTW, openSUSE packages them too.
do they support amd?
You are becoming a pain. Of course they support AMD processors. ALL 64-bit cpus execute the same instruction set. I have 3 machines running openSUSE - 2 with Intel cpus and 1 with AMD.