rtw89_pci constantly drops connection with old firmware

Hello Christian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into impish-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.201.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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yeah sure, I've upgraded to the proposed "linux-firmware 1.201.5". So far it keeps the connection to the Modem well enough for daily use... nevertheless, I'll keep an eye out for future improvements.

Hi,

I'm experiencing the exact same bug on impish with a Lenovo P14s, with connection drops every 5 to 10 minutes.

I've just installed the proposed package and will update the bug report tomorrow if the connection drops have stopped.

There's a new firmware:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=c784d7a3e3c2a83e3911fd3dd0e105911a323a5f

But this needs a driver feature-patch to work:

https://patchwork.kernel<email address hidden>/

"We found management frames get stuck when wifi chip
enters low ps mode. So we add one notify wake function
to trigger wifi chip into normal mode before forwarding
management frames."

(hw_scan feature seems to be less important.)

I can confirm that the proposed package already improves the situation quite a bit.

As far as I can tell, I've only experienced 3 disconnections since last night, without setting any of the `disable_*` parameters.

If there's a package to test the new patch from the 25th of Feb, I'm willing to give it a try, too!

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.201.5

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linux-firmware (1.201.5) impish; urgency=medium

  * rtw89_pci constantly drops connection with old firmware (LP: #1960933)
    - rtw89: 8852a: update fw to v0.13.30.0
    - rtw89: 8852a: update fw to v0.13.33.0

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:22:53 +0100

As commented before, the fix released in `-proposed` worked for me.

Since updating to `1.201.5` via `-updates` though, I'm seeing the bug again.