Bug 1507273

Summary: Marvell AVASTAR Wireless-AC fails initialization, loses entire connectivity after few minutes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chatty <mail>
Component: linux-firmwareAssignee: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: dwmw2, jforbes, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kyle, labbott, pbrobinson
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc29 linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc28 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-02-19 14:02:32 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Chatty 2017-10-29 06:44:43 UTC
Created attachment 1344950 [details]
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Description of problem: There are several boot errors for this wifi card but it still connects to my network. After a few minutes it looses the connection and does not see any network anymore.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Rawhide 20171027 x64


How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot live ISO
2. connect to Wifi
3. see connection drop after 4 mins

Actual results:
connectivity is lost

Expected results:
connectivity is kept

Additional info:
also happens with Ubuntu 17.10 (using linux 4.13.0)

I am using a Surface Book with i7 and Nvidia.

Comment 1 Chatty 2017-10-29 06:50:22 UTC
I found this two year old bug... in the last comment there's a workaround effictively disabling power management of the wifi card.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2018-02-20 15:37:20 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.

Comment 3 Peter Robinson 2019-02-14 12:24:59 UTC
The linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe has a new firmware for SD8977/SD8897-B0/PCIe-USB8997 so please test

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-02-14 12:26:28 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-42cbff0fd6

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-02-14 12:26:40 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f27089e66c

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-02-15 01:31:08 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f27089e66c

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-02-15 02:57:07 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-42cbff0fd6

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-02-19 14:02:32 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-02-24 04:08:24 UTC
linux-firmware-20190213-93.git710963fe.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.