Intermittent Wi-Fi connectivity issues on boot (mt7921e driver) about linux HOT 4 CLOSED

Here are journalctl logs from two different systems where wifi was not available at boot

journalwifi.log
journalwifi.log

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This should probably go to the Linux repo if those drivers are part of the kernel

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I don't think the MediaTek drivers are part of the kernel itself, but rather, they are part of the separately distributed linux-firmware package: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.mediatek

I think this issue describes the same problem as mentioned here: pop-os/pop#530 (comment)

At least two other people have reported issues with the MediaTek MT7921/MT7922 Wi-Fi devices in that issue, and other than Wi-Fi sometimes being unavailable on boot, there seems to be a related issue where the laptop also hangs during shutdown whenever the Wi-Fi is unavailable. If you are having only the Wi-Fi issue, but not the "hang during shutdown" issue, maybe the MT7921E that you have behaves slightly differently than the MT7921 and MT7922.

Either way, MediaTek have submitted several patches for these 3 Wi-Fi devices during the past months, so I'm hoping that pop-os/linux-firmware#35 will have fixed the issue. I think all that's left before we can try the 20230629 version of linux-firmware is a release here: https://github.com/pop-os/repo-release

EDIT: The new version of linux-firmware is now available in the Pop!_OS APT repository, let's try it and hope that it fixes the issue.

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EDIT: The new version of linux-firmware is now available in the Pop!_OS APT repository, let's try it and hope that it fixes the issue.

I think this issue can be closed for now. In my case I did not have this problem since the update (this is not a very long time, but still). How about you @jacobktm ?

In case if this is not fixed it could be reopened

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