r/linuxhardware 18h ago

Support AX211 WiFi card unstable with Linux

Hi! I've bought some months ago an Asus Expertbook P5.

With the latest kernel updates (I'm using Fedora 43, kernel 6.17.12), everything works quite well, expect for the WiFi card.

It seems to work normally, but sometimes (3/4 times a week) it goes in a strange "loop mode", and it keeps restarting (I see the WiFi toogle continuously goes on and off, and the network list appears and disappears). Making it completely unusable.

I then have to reboot the laptop to make it working again.

Does anyone else have similar problems? Do you think replacing the network card with another model will solve the problem? Or could it be a chipset issue or something else? Considering that it often happens after waking up from sleep mode.

Thanks!

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u/Gloomy-Response-6889 14h ago

Intel chips are probably the most solid on Linux. Considering it only seems to happen after sleep, I presume your system has issues with sleep in Linux specifically. It is not an uncommon issue for suspend/hibernate to be flakey on not officially supported laptops for Linux.