Intermittent WiFi loss on Steam Deck
Hi folks 👋
I've been having issues with WiFi connectivity on my Steam Deck since I installed Bazzite. The deck will connect to my home network with 100% signal strength, and then after a short while (usually due to network inactivity) will drop the connection and not re-connect. It feels like something to do with power management, as I've had similar issues in the past on my Arch laptop when TLP manages the power of my network card. I have a WiFi mesh system in my home, so signal strength is not the issue. Also worth mentioning that with SteamOS I never had this problem. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to configure the WiFi power management on Bazzite? Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!
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we had someone else report the same issue with ally x and they had a mesh network too, logs indicated it was failing to authenticate when trying to roam between APs, user was told to restart their router and APs and was going to try that, but never got back to us
if you have a mesh network or a mixed 2.4/5g network it's possible your router is rejecting this device for one side of it.
when it comes to wifi powermanagement i believe it is all stock fedora, we do nothing with it.
if you can do
sudo dmesg > ~/kernel.log after you get the issue and then provide the log here then we can have a look and see if it is the same issue as the user with the ally xGreat stuff, will do, thanks!