Hello Community! So I am new to Fedora, and linux in general (Although I have some experience of developing programs/tools on WSL2, for linux). I recently switched to Fedora 39, and my HP laptop, with the Realtek RTL8732DE is showing issues with the WiFI. Sometimes, it randomly disconnects. Other times, the speed slows down to such an extent that it just shows that no internet is available. And almas I have to take this laptop to places where there’s no ethernet cableost 50% of the time, it says ‘No Wi-Fi adapter found’. I have seen previous posts here about the same, but all of those were not using Linux Kernel 6. I also saw: the smlinux’s module for the same, but it’s also for Linux Kernel 5.
I have verified that the issues are NOT occurring due to increased temperature, or due to power consumption. I have also installed the required dependencies for the kernel modules support, namely these:
dkms git gcc gcc-c++ kernel-headers kernel-devel make
Also, the issue is not found when using wired connection. But I can’t keep using wired connections outside my house.
So I request the community to help me with this. Thank you very much!
Ohh, okay that seems a good thing to do. The problem is, my card has Wifi and Bluetooth integrated, so will it be feasible to replace this card with an Intel card? Plus, how do I know which card is going to support my laptop hardware? Sorry but I am a noob when it comes to the hardware side of things. Thank you!
Yes, if it has M.2 or CNVi socketed wifi. Older CPU’s use M.2 cards like Intel Dual Band Wireless 8265 or Intel AC-9560. These have PCIe WiFI and USB Bluetooth and are sold in multiple form factors by multiple vendors. The chipset has linux drivers from Intel, but some no-name cards are junks so look for cards from companies with established reputations (Dell or HP).
Recent Intel CPU’s provide CNVi, integrated wireless protocol support and separate RF modules. These use a CNVio slot that looks like M.2 but is NOT the same as standard M.2.
Newer M.2 WiFi cards generally have newer Bluetooth versions with better performance with recent devices. Bluetooth Versions has a table. Note the last line “Reliability” in the table.
Right, I guess the one suggested by @computersavvy has Bluetooth 5.3, which seems highly reliable as per the table you shared. I’ll look into that one. Thank you very much guys!
This is also happening to my Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 2. I am using Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition), and basically the problem is described here in this link issue: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89/issues/240 , indeed with Realtek wifi cards, but in my case I have an Intel Wireless card. The lspci command output show me this:
Please start a new thread, e.g., “Lenovo ThinkPad P16s CNVi WiFi (rev 01) frequent …” (where “…” might be “disconnects”, “slowdowns”, etc).
You should include the output from inxi -Fzxx run in a terminal (use the </> button to preserve formatting). This will help others with the same hardware find your post. It is good practice to ensure that you system is fully updated (Fedora packages and vendor firmware updates) so you aren’t chasing a problem that has already been solved (if updates do fix the problem, it may help others if you post the inxi details and description of the problem mentioning that updating solved it.)
