I’m having a persistent issue with WiFi on my ROG Ally running Bazzite. The WiFi card is a MediaTek MT7922.
After booting, the system connects to my WiFi for a few minutes, then disconnects and all wireless networks disappear. It no longer sees any WiFi until I reboot. Bluetooth still works fine, so the card is partially functional.
I’ve updated everything (sudo rpm-ostree upgrade), reset all NetworkManager connections, tried bringing the interface down/up with ip link set, disabled fast boot in BIOS. Still no luck.
nmcli shows the interface as disconnected after a few seconds, and nmcli dev wifi list returns nothing after the drop.
Is there a known issue with the MT7922 on Bazzite, or any additional firmware or kernel modules I should try? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Please note that Bazzite gets its lineage from Fedora Atomic desktops - specifically Kinoite.
So you should troubleshoot as if it were any Fedora Atomic desktop - with the caveat that bazzite has some sane defaults for installed apps, etc.
In general, you should troubleshoot wifi as any linux system. My laptop has the Intel Alder Lake chip set and I see (lsmod | grep wifi) that the iwlwifi module is in use.
The kernel my system is running (uname -r) is 6.14.3-300.fc42.x86_64.
Knowing those 3 pieces of info should help you chase down any known issues:
chip / card model
module being detected (or not)
kernel release
I do see a wifi item in ujust for bluefin-dx, but I do not see the same thing in the bazzite system just files.
FYI, I have not had any wifi issues with my laptop (Acer Nitro 5).