Bug 2459430
| Summary: | Fedora 44 has power_save on for the wifi NIC RTL8852BE which makes internet slow on affected laptops. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | bugzilla.equinox584 <bugzilla.equinox584> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Justin M. Forbes <jforbes> | ||||
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 44 | CC: | acaringi, adscvr, airlied, hans, hpa, jforbes, kernel-maint, linville, masami256, mchehab, nickolasjcarr, ptalbert, robatino, steved, suraj.ghimire7 | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression | ||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221382 | ||||||
| Whiteboard: | RejectedBlocker | ||||||
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Description
bugzilla.equinox584@aleeas.com
2026-04-18 11:31:37 UTC
Created attachment 2137553 [details]
``journalctl --no-hostname -k > dmesg.txt`` output
Proposed as a Blocker for 44-final by Fedora user loquser using the blocker tracking app because: Getting a wifi speed of 5mbs instead of 50mbs is a pretty bad experience to me which isn't proper for a final release especially that if the devs can't figure out how to fix the drivers they can just disable power_save. Using a vpn fixes the issue too probably by keeping the NIC awake. On kernel 6.12.82 (lts) the bug is not present with power_save on. The bug appeared on kernel 6.19.x and the oldest one I tried was 6.19.2 which had the bug. (In reply to bugzilla.equinox584 from comment #5) > The bug appeared on kernel 6.19.x and the oldest one I tried was 6.19.2 > which had the bug. No this is not correct I just tried 6.18.23 lts and the bug is there i will proceed to do a kernel regression bisect and inform you which kernel caused the regression. Following official kernel bisection guide and im getting tons of errors. I give up on bisection and no old kernels are available in repo so i will leave finding to regressions to any other contributer. The bug appeared after 6.12lts is all I know. Power_save on is higher speed but not stable I meant off Nevermind instability is because of my router the power_save off workaround works perfectly AGREED RejectedFinalBlocker Discussed at the 2026-04-20 (blocker / freeze exception) review meeting: This is rejected as a non-fatal (but annoying) issue on a single wifi chip is clearly below the threshold. If we blocked Fedora releases on annoying issues on single wifi chips, we'd never release anything. FE status left open as votes are split for now. https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org//blocker-review_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-04-20/f44-blocker-review.2026-04-20-16.00.log.txt |