I installed fedora 44 kde beta, installed nvidia drivers, updated the system and did some other normal stuff then I rebooted and wifi and bluetooth icons disappeared and no connection was present. I am unable to identify which part is the problem because I dont know enough about distro components and I installed fedora 43 kde and no problem is present there. I use a laptop called lenovo loq 15irx10 with an i5 13450hx and rtx 5050. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install fedora 44 beta kde on a machine with rtl8852be. 2.Update system. Actual Results: No wifi and bluetooth presence. Expected Results: Wifi and bluetooth presence. Additional Information: Everything was up to date to yesterday's latest software.
Proposed as a Blocker for 44-beta by Fedora user loquser using the blocker tracking app because: It breaks wifi and bluetooth for all rtl8852be users which is very important and a machine without wifi is barely usable.
Proposed as a Blocker for 44-final by Fedora user loquser using the blocker tracking app because: It breaks wifi and bluetooth for all rtl8852be users which is very important and a machine without wifi is barely usable.
Please report at least the versions of the kernel and linux-firmware that is broken.
I have a machine with a RTL8822CE which is working fine.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #3) > Please report at least the versions of the kernel and linux-firmware that is > broken. And attach a dmesg output.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #4) > I have a machine with a RTL8822CE which is working fine. Sorry I don't have access to the beta system as I reinstalled 43 but i was up to date and that was esterday so it is probably the latest version unless today there was an update
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #4) > I have a machine with a RTL8822CE which is working fine. That is because rtl8822ce uses rtw88 driver and rtl8852be uses rtw89 driver.
> Sorry I don't have access to the beta system as I reinstalled 43 but i was > up to date and that was esterday so it is probably the latest version unless > today there was an update So you're running F-43 with the latest updates and the wifi is working?
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #8) > > Sorry I don't have access to the beta system as I reinstalled 43 but i was > > up to date and that was esterday so it is probably the latest version unless > > today there was an update > > So you're running F-43 with the latest updates and the wifi is working? Yes
> > So you're running F-43 with the latest updates and the wifi is working? > > Yes Please report what the versions of linux-firmware and the kernel are then.
Could you also boot the F-44 RC candidate off a USB stick and report the status of F-44?
Candidate is here: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/44_RC-1.2/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458629 is an interesting report which also mentions the rtw89 driver. Not sure if that's what you're seeing, though.
Discussed at 2026-04-16 Go/No-Go meeting, acting as a blocker review meeting: https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-04-16/f44-final-go-no-go-meeting.2026-04-16-18.00.html . Rejected as a blocker on the basis that there's only one report of this that we can find, realtek hardware is notoriously unreliable in any case (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1s8myt8/kerneldriver_bug_issue_with_wifi_need_help/ ), and someone present at the meeting has the same chip in a system running F44 and it's working fine.
update: i updated kernel on my fedora 43 to version 6.19.12-200 and wifi became slow 5 megabits but when i use vpn it becomes 50 megabits
another user having issues with kernel 6.19: https://www.reddit.com/r/wifi/comments/1rprz6j/rtl8852be_wifi_keeps_disconnecting_please_help/
even turning on vpn as browser extension solves the problem and increases speed to 50 even though other vpnless devices work fine
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #11) > Could you also boot the F-44 RC candidate off a USB stick and report the > status of F-44? Wifi works on fedora 44 rc but its slow unless i use vpn (without vpn speed is 5mbs with vpn its 50mbs amd no my phone has normal speed its system issue) and i didn't install nvidia drivers or anything this time its plain fedora 44 rc that has a slow connection if not using vpn for some reason
Vpn is proton vpn
(In reply to bugzilla.equinox584 from comment #18) > even turning on vpn as browser extension solves the problem and increases > speed to 50 even though other vpnless devices work fine Which tells me it's not an issue with the wifi as the wifi is clearly working at speed, but likely an issue with your local network.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #10) > > > So you're running F-43 with the latest updates and the wifi is working? > > > > Yes > > Please report what the versions of linux-firmware and the kernel are then. You still haven't reported the version of linux-firmware or added the dmesg output.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #21) > (In reply to bugzilla.equinox584 from comment #18) > > even turning on vpn as browser extension solves the problem and increases > > speed to 50 even though other vpnless devices work fine > > Which tells me it's not an issue with the wifi as the wifi is clearly > working at speed, but likely an issue with your local network. No it is not an issue with my network my other device works perfectly without vpn it is an issue that appeared after an update on my linux machine and for some weird reason proton vpn solves it. Linux-firmware version is version is linux-firmware-20260309-1.
Created attachment 2137438 [details] dmesg output
Peter i think i should report this to the driver maintainers tell me what you think after seeing the dmesg output
Just tried kernel 6.14 to confirm that it is a kernel issue and it works perfectly
6.17 too
This bug seems to be 6.19 exclusive and not user side problem
This is similar to the can't print on tuesday bug 🙂
so please actually report the version of linux-firmware that regresses it, you're yet to even report the current version you're running.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #30) > so please actually report the version of linux-firmware that regresses it, > you're yet to even report the current version you're running. I told you it is linux-firmware-20260309-1 you may have missed the message
> I told you it is linux-firmware-20260309-1 you may have missed the message That was the one you're running or the one that regressed the wifi, it's not clear from your statement which it is.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #32) > > I told you it is linux-firmware-20260309-1 you may have missed the message > > That was the one you're running or the one that regressed the wifi, it's not > clear from your statement which it is. That is the one that caused the weird vpn problem i will be running mint or opensuse leap for now
There wasn't any updates for rtw89 firmware in the march FW update. There was in the Feb update.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #34) > There wasn't any updates for rtw89 firmware in the march FW update. There > was in the Feb update. This bug is the weirdest one i have ever encountered. May be a kernel update? Like something other than the firmware updating and causing this. I can't think of any reason why a vpn would fix a network bug with a specific kernel version. I will try opensuse tumbleweed and see if the issue is present or not.
Opensuse tumbleweed kernel 6.19.12 also has this problem. One thing i noticed is 2.4ghz is faster than 5ghz if i dont use vpn. This is definitely a bug in either the networking backend or kernel.
*sudo iw dev wlp8s0 set power_save off" returns wifi speed to normal without a vpn
The guy working with yall that has the chip probably has power save off because he uses a desktop not a laptop
I will close this bug and open a new one with a title fitting the new bug because the bug in the title does not exist anymore.