New Install on ROG Ally X - Wifi Always Drops, Requiring Restarts
I'm working with a new install on my Ally X. I'm dual-booting Windows.
I've found that the wifi inevitably drops on the Bazzite side, usually within 30mins to an hour. Sometimes it lasts longer but I've never held connection reliably.
I've tried the steps that most people recommend.. Turned off fast-boot in the bios. I've updated to the latest Bazzite, latest Windows.
One theory I had was that you can't use restart from windows to get back to Bazzite. I read that when you do that, Windows can still claim a kind of "hold" on the wifi card. I stopped using restart and now only use shutdown, and it (maybe?) improved, but I still lose wifi on Bazzite eventually.
I do not have this issue on my Steam Deck, nor any other devices in my home.
Is there anything else I can try?
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New developments...
1: I found a toggle in developer mode to turn off "wifi power management". That didn't help.
2: I am also losing wifi in desktop mode
One more update…
I found a way to disable hibernation on the windows side via a command prompt.
“At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.”
Apparently windows STILL takes hold of the WiFi if you don’t do this. I’m not even sure how this is possible when you’ve booted to an entirely different OS and hard drive partition. I hate windows.
So far, I’ve been downloading games on the Bazzite side for almost 2hrs without interruption. I’m hopeful that this was the final change I needed to make, but will report back and mark as resolved once I’m confident the WiFi won’t fail again. I’m going to need many more hours of uninterrupted connection to confirm this.
If feel this should be a widely documented step to take since many users are dual booting windows, especially on Ally. I only found this because I commented on the right YouTube video and the uploader was able to tip me off to it.
Nope. Wifi still dropped. I’m going to have to go back to windows or wait until Valve releases their OS. Disappointing.
I am with same device and no problem, but I am not dual booting
Ok.
Yes this is a known problem, Windows leaves the hardware in a broken state when you restart
You must shut down between the two
At the very least your intuition was correct
There is no fix
When you restart? The fix is restarting Windows rather than shutting down for me. I can only reproduce the issue when I shutdown as Windows does a semi-hibernate on shutdown and locks half the hardware.
Probably this is more AMD problem as PCIe devices share lanes and Linux drivers can not reset them properly, I had similar problem with sound on AMD laptop with 7940hs which is not too much different from z1e
Restart is probably better
And in BIOS may be disable fast boot
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