Realtek RTL8852BE intermittent issues

[stfefane]

Hi, I just updated yesterday ans since then I have a weird WiFi behaviour, the connection just “pauses” randomly. I don’t get disconnected from the network, my other machines still have internet but I have intermittent moments where I cannot access the internet and my network monitor is stuck at 0b/s. Then it works back again like nothing happened, and cuts again after a moment. I made a few searches through the forum and various reddit posts and wikis but did not really find similar symptoms

Does it ring a bell to anybody? I’m using the 6.10.5 kernel and this is the result of inxi -Nazy

Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel modules: r8168 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
Device-2: Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network vendor: Lenovo
driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 3000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280

Any help appreciated. I can do a dedicated thread in the Network support category if it’s too specific. Thanks !

[Arrababiski]

When there are glitches with wifi connection, first try disabling powersave and Mac randomization.

RTL8822CE Instability even with newest kernel

You can try two workarounds. Turn off wifi power save first. Create .conf file: sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf And copy these two lines inside it: [connection] wifi.powersave = 2 If the issue remains, turn off Mac Randomization. Create .conf file: sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/disable-random-mac.conf Copy these two lines inside: [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no Hope this can solve your problem.

[stfefane]

Trying that now, I’ll let you know how it goes, thank you

[stfefane]

After a good hour of testing, I can say it’s way better, I’m considering it solved and will come back to it if I notice other issues.

Thanks a lot !