Recently backed up the home folder from a 16.04 LTS install, wiped the disk and did a fresh install of 20.04 LTS, and restored the home folder from the backup. Since then, wifi connects but is slow and regularly drops authentication.
I've tried reloading the wireless kernel module, changing the wifi powersaving settings, and deactivating the N-mode of the driver, with no results.
I think I might need to either recompile the wifi drivers or adjust the kernel version, but I'm not sure which, and I'd rather not touch the kernel if I don't have to. Can anyone offer any insight into which one is likely to be the issue?
sudo lshw -C network:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: enp2s0
version: 12
serial: 00:1d:60:57:d3:e3
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.30 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:28 memory:fe9fc000-fe9fffff ioport:d800(size=256) memory:fe9c0000-fe9dffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:05:01.0
logical name: wlp5s1
version: 00
serial: 00:18:f8:b0:fd:53
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=5.11.0-37-generic firmware=0.8 ip=192.168.0.112 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:febf8000-febfffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:3
logical name: wlx0015af2398bc
serial: 00:15:af:23:98:bc
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8187 driverversion=5.11.0-37-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
ifconfig -a:
enp2s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1d:60:57:d3:e3 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 8827 bytes 790555 (790.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8827 bytes 790555 (790.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp5s1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.112 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::3b66:3466:167d:f349 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:18:f8:b0:fd:53 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 25701 bytes 20660841 (20.6 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 23721 bytes 6775707 (6.7 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlx0015af2398bc: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:15:af:23:98:bc txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
sudo iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
enp2s0 no wireless extensions.
wlx0015af2398bc IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlp5s1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"00placeholder00"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 94:10:3E:A8:9C:4E
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:199 Invalid misc:3999 Missed beacon:0
lspci:
05:01.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
dmesg:
[ 2348.175565] wlp5s1: authenticate with a2:2b:b0:ea:23:7a
[ 2348.190043] wlp5s1: send auth to a2:2b:b0:ea:23:7a (try 1/3)
[ 2348.392544] wlp5s1: send auth to a2:2b:b0:ea:23:7a (try 2/3)
[ 2348.596457] wlp5s1: send auth to a2:2b:b0:ea:23:7a (try 3/3)
[ 2348.800346] wlp5s1: authentication with a2:2b:b0:ea:23:7a timed out
