I recently installed Fedora 40 beta, and initially, my home Wi-Fi router worked fine. However, after a while, I couldn’t connect anymore and encountered the error “can not activate.” Interestingly, this issue only occurs with my home router; I can easily connect to my phone’s hotspot. What’s even more interesting is that someone else experienced exactly the same problem with the same setup and successfully connected to their phone’s hotspot.
Do you have any solutions?
Can you provide additional information about your configuration?
inxi -z -n
or
lspci | grep -Ei 'ether|net|wire'
01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
I didn’t have any problems with Fedora 39, and I have to tell you, it fixed itself automatically today. It happens randomly.
“Random” wifi problems in linux are often associated with unstable power, different sequences when multibooting (e.g., wifi works in Windows but fails in linux unless booted from power off), different locations with different wifi networks, or small changes in the location or orientation of the wifi antenna. To understand your wifi problem we need to see the relevant entries from journalctl.
I have exactly the same issue (also wifi card Mediatek MT7922). Did the investigations come to a solution? How did you fix it? Thanks!
So far, none of the users who had problems with this card have provided data (such as inxi -Fzxx output or relevant entries from journalctl) needed to understand the problems.
One reliable “fix” if your system has a removable wifi card is to replace the Mediatek MT7922 with a newer card that has drivers from kernel.org.
To whom it may concern:
I split the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz band. I have no clue why this helped. But now the connection is stable, fix and connects automatically also after being in stand-by mode.
What does that mean? What did you do to accomplish that?
