I recently moved from Windows to Manajaro on a desktop system. I’m having problems with WiFi connectivity. It’s effectively unstable. Runs for a while and then stalls… occasionally silently and then at some point states limited connectivty. Eventually it fails altogether and there is no WiFi connection.
A reboot will “fix it” but that may be for a couple of days or only a few minutes. Turning the wifi off and then on again has also been effective at “bringing it back” although this has now failed entirely twice today which seems new. Again when it comes back from this it may be minutes or hours before it fails again.
I’m getting the following noise in dmesg around when the wifi fails
rtw_8822bu 1-11:1.0: write register 0xc4 failed with -71
rtw_8822bu 1-11:1.0: rtw_usb_reg_sec: reg 0x4e0, usb write 1 fail, status: -71
followed by :
rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3353.263475\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3354.250146\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3355.266808\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3356.253477\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3357.240142\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3358.226827\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
\[ 3358.691009\] wlp0s20f0u5: deauthenticated from e4:f4:c6:06:b8:33 (Reason: 16=GROUP_KEY_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT)
\[ 3358.983435\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: error beacon valid
\[ 3358.983504\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to download rsvd page
\[ 3358.983822\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to download firmware
\[ 3358.986787\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: leave idle state failed
\[ 3358.991263\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to leave ips state
\[ 3358.991267\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to leave idle state
\[ 3363.154085\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: error beacon valid
\[ 3363.154153\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to download rsvd page
\[ 3363.154475\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to download firmware
\[ 3363.157434\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: leave idle state failed
\[ 3363.161917\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to leave ips state
\[ 3363.161920\] rtw_8822bu 2-5:1.0: failed to leave idle state
output of sudo inxi -zv8 follows
System:
Kernel: 6.12.48-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
root=UUID=3dfc5a12-dede-4661-b082-08dfee2bf061 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.6 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: B150M-C v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
part-nu: SKU uuid: eefff5e0-72ba-11e3-a27b-f832e46e0127 Firmware: UEFI
vendor: American Megatrends v: 1801 date: 05/10/2016
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 5.52 GiB (35.5%)
Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: no module installed
Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 2133 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Kingston part-no: 9905625-030.A00G serial: <filter>
Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: no module installed
Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 2133 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Kingston part-no: 9905625-030.A00G serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
Slot: 0 type: PCIe status: in use length: long volts: 3.3 bus-ID: 01:01.0
Slot: 1 type: PCIe status: available length: long volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 02:1c.3
Slot: 2 type: PCIe status: available length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 03:1c.4
Slot: 4 type: PCI status: available length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 06:1c.6
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700 socket: LGA1151 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake-S gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015
process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3
microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3700 min/max: 800/4000 base/boost: 3400/4000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 3700 2: 3700 3: 3700 4: 3700 5: 3700 6: 3700 7: 3700 8: 3700
bogomips: 54417
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida
intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr
mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge
pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep
smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsa status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm
built: 2014-2019 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DVI-I-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300 temp: 41.0 C
Device-2: Logitech Logitech Webcam C925e driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-6:4
chip-ID: 046d:085b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: BenQ GW2765 serial: <filter> built: 2014
res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.663 y: 0.333 green:
x: 0.298 y: 0.631 blue: x: 0.145 y: 0.051 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9
modes: 2560x1440, 1920x1080, 1920x1080i, 1680x1050, 1600x900, 1280x1024,
1280x800, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1024x768, 832x624, 800x600, 720x576,
720x480, 640x480, 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.2.3-arch1.2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NV124 device-ID: 10de:13c2 memory: 3.88 GiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 970 (NVK GM204) driver: mesa nvk v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
device-ID: 10de:13c2 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Logitech Logitech Webcam C925e driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-6:4
chip-ID: 046d:085b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.12.48-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: TP-Link 802.11ac NIC driver: rtw_8822bu type: USB rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 2-5:4 chip-ID: 2357:0138
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u5 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1:2
chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.77 TiB used: 3.11 TiB (65.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: A-Data model: SP550 family: based SSDs
size: 223.57 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.1
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0C temp: 30 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 1y 208d 6h cycles: 528
read: 69.39 TiB written: 95.28 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB10C
family: Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.0 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200
serial: <filter> fw-rev: CC43 temp: 32 C scheme: MBR
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 8y 240d 8h cycles: 523
read: 8.02 TiB written: 6.39 TiB Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 family: Blue (CMR) size: 3.64 TiB block-size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD
rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0A80 temp: 39 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 4y 281d 16h cycles: 369
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH24NSC0 rev: LI00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 223.28 GiB size: 223.28 GiB (100.00%)
used: 60.68 GiB (27.2%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 3dfc5a12-dede-4661-b082-08dfee2bf061
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 636 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
label: N/A uuid: 303D-1D31
ID-3: /home raw-size: 223.28 GiB size: 223.28 GiB (100.00%)
used: 60.68 GiB (27.2%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 3dfc5a12-dede-4661-b082-08dfee2bf061
ID-4: /run/media/mstewart/42 raw-size: 3.64 TiB size: 3.64 TiB (100.00%)
used: 2.38 TiB (65.5%) fs: ntfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdc2
maj-min: 8:34 label: 42 uuid: 3A7256227255E2E5
ID-5: /run/media/mstewart/Shared raw-size: 931.51 GiB
size: 931.51 GiB (100.00%) used: 684.46 GiB (73.5%) fs: ntfs
block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: Shared
uuid: C0461E52461E4A14
ID-6: /var/cache raw-size: 223.28 GiB size: 223.28 GiB (100.00%)
used: 60.68 GiB (27.2%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 3dfc5a12-dede-4661-b082-08dfee2bf061
ID-7: /var/log raw-size: 223.28 GiB size: 223.28 GiB (100.00%)
used: 60.68 GiB (27.2%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 3dfc5a12-dede-4661-b082-08dfee2bf061
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Device-2: 1-4:3 info: Logitech Mouse type: mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 046d:c077 class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 1-6:4 info: Logitech Logitech Webcam C925e type: video,audio
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 046d:085b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-12:6 info: Logitech Keyboard K120 type: keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 90mA
chip-ID: 046d:c31c class-ID: 0300
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-5:4 info: TP-Link 802.11ac NIC type: Network
driver: rtw_8822bu interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 power: 504mA chip-ID: 2357:0138 class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 77.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 42.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 1229
Repos:
Packages: 1588 pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1569 libs: 390 tools: pamac
pm: rpm pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 19
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://opencolo.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://nnenix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://codingflyboy.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://volico.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
8: https://southfront.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 320
1: cpu: 23.8% command: firefox pid: 3525 mem: 458.5 MiB (2.8%)
2: cpu: 7.6% command: chromium pid: 6268 mem: 362.3 MiB (2.2%)
3: cpu: 7.5% command: [kworker/u32:8-flush-btrfs-1] pid: 7624
mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%)
4: cpu: 7.4% command: chromium pid: 7879 mem: 451.6 MiB (2.8%)
5: cpu: 5.8% command: [kworker/u32:4-btrfs-endio-write] pid: 7445
mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%)
Memory top: 5 of 320
1: mem: 794.3 MiB (4.9%) command: plasmashell pid: 945 cpu: 0.5%
2: mem: 458.5 MiB (2.8%) command: firefox pid: 3525 cpu: 23.8%
3: mem: 451.6 MiB (2.8%) command: chromium pid: 7879 cpu: 7.4%
4: mem: 387.1 MiB (2.4%) command: chromium pid: 1286 cpu: 2.4%
5: mem: 362.3 MiB (2.2%) command: chromium pid: 6268 cpu: 7.6%
Info:
Processes: 320 Power: uptime: 2h 10m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.19 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 20.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.17p1
default: Bash v: 5.3.3 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
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