Bug Report: wifi intermittently turning off and on

[HumbleHedgemony]

What happened?

every 5 to 10 minutes wifi will lose connection, then reconnect.
sometimes it will fail to reconnect.

i've tested the following dongles
- netgear a6150 ac1200
- roccar AC1300

they both use the same 88x2bu driver.

i've installed a separate 88x2bu driver and it definitely improved stability. but on occasion, still fails.

Kernel version

6.11

SBC model

Orange Pi 5 Plus

What operating system are you seeing this problem on?

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)

Relevant logs

No response

[ewaldc]

@HumbleHedgemony, there is no active support for ubuntu-rockchip at this moment as Joshua is taking a well deserved (long) break.
It is also unrealistic for us to expect a single person to find the time to solve all these addon HW related issues.

That said, I think you have a better chance to try this on the much more stable 6.1.x (vendor) kernel that comes with the 22.04 release, also because the 88x2bu-20210702 driver itself has not been validated on 6.11. USB support for Rockchip64 has only made it quite recently to the mainline kernel and not all is fully fault free (yet) as e.g. tested on Armbian Bookworm with Linux kernel 6.12 on OPI5+.
Also good try on different USB ports on the OP5+. I have another Realtek USB wireless card (8192eu) and it was not behaving equally on all ports. Specifically things like power consumption and Linux Kernel USB runtime power management can be challenges. Ideally, test on a kernel that has USB power saving disabled.