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guilehm

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Registered: 2023-02-01

Posts: 12

Entire System Unstable Due to mt7921e Wireless Driver Issues

Hi everyone,

My entire Arch Linux breaks like 3 times a week that appears to be linked to my mt7921e wireless driver, this issue never occurred when I'm wired.
The Wireless Card is integrated with my motherboard ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI and the BIOS is up-to-date.

Everything breaks, I lose network access, screen issues when switching in i3, inability to see any status or run commands in systemctl, and I can't do anything but press the power button.
If I send the reboot command, It gets stuck on "the system will reboot now".

I can't recover it, no matter what I do, and I can't reproduce it, it just happens randomly.

Some relevant logs when the problem starts:

Jun 27 16:03:06 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:08 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:08 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:10 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:11 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:12 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:13 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:14 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:15 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:16 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:17 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:18 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:19 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed
Jun 27 16:03:19 gui NetworkManager[822]: <info>  [1719514999.3990] device (tun0): state change: activated -> unmanaged (reason 'unmanaged', sys-iface-state: 'removed')
Jun 27 16:03:19 gui systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
Jun 27 16:03:19 gui systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
Jun 27 16:03:20 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: Timeout for driver own
Jun 27 16:03:21 gui kernel: mt7921e 0000:0b:00.0: driver own failed

Full logs are here

Has anyone else experienced similar issues with the mt7921e driver? Any suggestions on how to resolve these repeated "driver own failed" errors?

I’ve tried updating the system, firmware, and switching kernels but the issue persists.
Since the system becomes completely unusable, I have to press the power button to reboot.

My BIOS is up-to-date.

I tried this workaround and now I'm facing another problem that my displays are not recognized correctly, only one shows in the list as None-1.

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 4096 x 4096
None-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   2560x1440     60.00*+

Appreciated any help.

Last edited by guilehm (2024-06-28 12:52:01)

scelester

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Registered: 2024-07-22

Posts: 1

Re: Entire System Unstable Due to mt7921e Wireless Driver Issues

I have exactly same problem on asus tuf f15. Did you managed to get it fixed?

Last edited by scelester (2024-07-22 02:42:49)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 64,527

Re: Entire System Unstable Due to mt7921e Wireless Driver Issues

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217415#c12

@guilehmThat's the simpledrm device, add "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init" to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters or if you've an nvidia gpu enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting - use the "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" kernel parameter (modprobe.conf won't do!)

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