On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] > > The only thing I've between yesterday when the device wasn't active is I > did a system update yesterday which updated the kernel to 6.17.4 so I am > now running on that instead of 6.16.10, but I checked the 6.16.10 config > yesterday and it was showing the it had support for the mt7925 chipset, and > the driver and firmware were already installed. From what I've read support > for the chipset was patched into the kernel with kernel 6.7, so it should > have been active in later kernels. > The other thing I did yesterday was turn off random mac address generation > for wifi in the NetworkManager config, which I had also done earlier as a > trial which did nothing relative to the issue. > As I said a bit earlier, now that it seems to be active I'll keep > monitoring it and see if it stops continually connecting and disconnecting, > but irrespective of that thankyou for all your help. > Sometimes wifi hardware gets into a "confused" state. Because wifi is often enabled even when a system is "off" to support wake-on-wlan, and vendors try to reduce startup time, they tend to avoid delays resetting wifi hardware. It is hard to know what is needed to force a reset. -- George N. White III
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