Issues with WiFi module not being accessible on boot - have to boot into windows first and restart.
What it says in the title: When I boot up my PC from a shutdown state, Bazzite can't connect to my ethernet cable, or to any WiFI networks at all. I have to restart, boot into Windows, and then restart from Windows into Bazzite, and then it all works fine. (I am dual booting on separate drives).
Things I've done:
1) Disabled Fast Boot in BIOS
2) Disabled Fast Startup in Windows Power Options
3) Disabled Hibernation in Command Prompt
None of these steps have seemingly worked. Any ideas?
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I guess I'll bump this. Does anybody have any ideas?
That's a very weird issue. Secure boot on or off? Might make a difference. Maybe some form of wake up on lan setting somewhere?
yep, secure boot is already off. Wake on lan might be a shout, I'll look into that.
I'm not entirely sure but it seems my WiFi card seems to have it's own entry in the boot order in BIOS, so it runs GRUB>Windows>WiFi card. Wonder if I should put the WiFi Card second in the boot order but not sure if that would be a good idea
That's just boot order, probably for network boot. that should affect your networking at all
if you run
ip link show in the terminal does it show any of the network devices when you having the issue?
And is this when the issue is happening?
Yep
I can get one when the issue isn't happening, one sec
oh seems to me to be a similar/the same output?
try run
sudo ifconfig wlp9s0 up and lets see if it gives you an error or brings up your wifi
Or sudo ip link set wlp9s0 mode default since it's showing as "dormant" instead of "default"
ran while there was an issue
ran this with the networking working
note that it's
ifconfig and you left out the "up" too. ipconfig is windowsoops my bad, yeah ipconfig command was just a typo
let me try that again
I'm not copying over the commands directly since I don't have networking when I'm running these
yeah makes sense, don't worry everyone gets caught out with the ifconfig command
if I've got this right, nothing of note seems to have shown up
if you run
ip link show does it show that the wifi is online?
if you run systemctl status NetworkManager does it show that it's active and enabled?The network manager command gave me a really quite long output that seems to be repeated
But it says active and enabled
This is the other command
try the following
I want to see if it shows the wifi as online
If that doesn't work, do you have a live USB of something else? Like Nobara or Linux Mint or Ubuntu. I'd like to see if this problem is specific to Bazzite or if you have this issue with other Linux distros too.
This is the output from that. Doesn't seem to have worked unfortunately
My USB currently is loaded with Bazzite but I'd happily make one for another distro. Used to be a distro hopper years ago
Did
sudo ifconfig wlp9s0 up give you an error at all? I see that it did change it to default instead of dormantNope, no error
Probably worth checking if this is specific to Bazzite or not.
Yep, got ubuntu writing to my USB atm.
Oh hi Hikari I see you typing. I hope you have some ideas 🙂
iirc kyle said in the past that windows just naturally put some wifi cards in a weird state and you need to fully shut down windows each time before using bazzite or something like that
Isn't that related to hibernate though. Miles has hibernate completely disabled
nope its a windows windows issue
Yep, I disabled everything that I knew needed to be disabled and what was said in the FAQ on the Bazzite page.
Even if you shut down from Bazzite instead of Windows? If I shut down Bazzite fully and then boot up into bazzite again, it won't work.
I'd have to boot into Windows, restart from Windows, and then go into Bazzite for it to work
It's an odd behaviour that I've not seen on other systems I've dual booted before but this is the first time I've dual booted on my gaming PC.
but that was a quote from talking about an ally issue
here it was
that was the mention i was actually looking for
so might be a similar thing to that but rebooting from windows solves it here
This is still one of the weirdest dual-boot wifi issues I've seen so far.
But anyway, maybe try the live usb of something and see if you have the same issue. Do you have any other ideas Hikari?
Because I'm out of ideas lol
nope sadly i dont
i dont dual boot specifically to avoid issues
if i dual boot it will be in a VM
Hm well not quite sure what to make of that. I booted off an Ubuntu live USB, first time networking worked fine I think, but I rebooted as it froze up. Second time networking didn't work at all
I reckon it might not be a bazzite specific issue - will give it another try
Third time not the charm - it didn't work. Sounds like it might be a dual booting issue/hardware issue
I've dual booted before and never had this issue, but not with Win 11. Could be a Win 11 introduced issue
Btw when you disabled hibernation did you run
powercfg -h off? I'm wondering if disabling in the UI disables it properlyYep
You are right though, I think once I disabled it via power options in the control panel but came back to it turned on regardless
That being said, I must say even without fast startup windows is still booting up very quickly
I’ve got a fast SSD but it’s like I never turned it off ngl
fast startup was mostly only useful back when Windows ran off slow HDDs, it made a big difference then. On a modern nvme, it'll make your machine boot 2 seconds faster
Yeah, fair. The difference really does feel negligible. I ran powercfg just now again in Powershell instead and I got hopeful for a second but don’t think it’s worked.
What’s odd is that the settings app is saying that it’s connected, but nothing is loading
Did you run the command in an admin powershell?
Yep with elevated privileges
if you run a ping such as
ping 8.8.8.8 does that work?Network unreachable yeah
Network connection failed now
Must be windows just locking up the WiFi card
what do you get if you run
ip link show?
Showing the wifi as offline stll?
switched back to being dormant I think