Some 5g WiFi is not showing

Hi guys, i been looking for fix for my 5g wifi connectivity.

I have legion go, dual boot win11+bazzite

In windows i can get all wifi networks both 2.4 and 5g

But in Bazzite some 5g aren’t available.

I really need your help this time since i can’t find it yet.


I wonder how can i change the driver, it’s seems running on other driver than it should.

Not sure about networks on the 5 GHz band, but I noticed on my GPD Win 4 (6800U version) that with Bazzite it wouldn’t show networks in the 6 GHz band, but another distro (an older version of HoloISO I used to use) and I think also Windows do show those networks.

I manage to fix it by clean install Bazzite, i have no other choice

It’s very unfortunate, 2 days after clean install and did some system updates i lost 5ghz wifi again. Something is wrong with bazzite for Legion Go. I also observed that since 5ghz are not scanned the internet for 2.4g is having spike issues :sob:

Tried everything I could to reproduce this on my legion go and cannot.

I use to bring my LeGO at work, there are some 5ghz networks on my office, i can connect.

HOWEVER, when i go home or even visit my friends to their flat. My phone discovered a lot of 5ghz networks.

But on my bazzite LeGO, only 2.4g are available.

Ironically, i can connect to those networks before specially when i clean install Bazzite.

Switching to windows can scan those 5ghz wifi.

Have you tried checking your phone, in different places? And compare to bazzite os?

I wanted to change the thread title, as i made some further observation it was not the 5Ghz wifi were unavailable but instead i lost the entire WIFI 6 or WIFI 6e

I made numerous of self study to fix the issue but until now it’s still not working.

I even tried this method [USB adapter Mediatek](https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/c1c3e762586f33c50a775d6949307e7c67ef45ce/home/How_to_Install_Firmware_for_Mediatek_based_USB_WiFi_adapters.md) and PCie mediatek drivers for MT9721 but since Bazzite is a read-only system it didn’t work.

So again, i reinstall the Bazzite OS, went to desktop mode and turn update to manual, and notification as “never”

on the first boot up i also run

sudo modprobe -r mt7921e

then

sudo modprobe mt7921e

Finally, i launched Discover, then went to the Setting and disabled all Firmware Linux repository.

It’s on second day now and i still have the access to all WIFI 6 networks.

The connection is strong and consistent.

I also avoid running

ujust update

Because i’m afraid that it will ruin my drivers for RZ616 Mediatek PCIe adapter.

Up until now there is no solid tutorial on how to tackle this issue.

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