NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

EricTheRedFL's avatar
EricTheRedFL
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2026

RBE971 dropping A9000 connections

Hello,

 

I've got an RBE971 running v12.1.10.12_5.3.16 in AP mode. I have an A9000 adapter for my Fedora Linux notebook that connects correctly. However, after about 5 minutes, the connection is dropped at the router end and nothing is logged on the notebook. Traffic just gets dropped. The only way to get a connection is to disable wifi then reenable it, giving another 5 minutes of access before the connection is blindly dropped again.

 

I had a similar issue when the router was on an older version that the updated router software fixed. There seems to be some internal timer that is not being validated correctly. The link can be under heavy use, light use, or not at all, when the 5 minute mark arrives, the connection is just blindly dropped with no data on the host side. The A9000 is still listed as an attached device on the Orbi after the connection is internally dropped.

 

The Linux NetworkManager programmers think this is something inside the router. What's up here and how can we fix it? I need to maintain wifi7 access. Dropping back to the wifi5 that's included in the notebook is too slow.

 

Best regards,

Eric

orbi 970 series

4 Replies

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 27, 2026

    What channels are you using on the RBR? 

     

    Do you have any RBS connected? 

     

    Distance from RBR to A9000 adapter in feet please? 

     

    Is this the only item that is having problems? 

    What driver version are you using for the A9000 adapter? Where are you getting the driver from since NG doesn't have a Linux discrete driver on there site?


    I've been testing my A9000 with the 973 series and have not exhibited this issue, however my adapter is connected with a windows 11 laptop. 

     

     

    • plemans's avatar
      plemans
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jul 28, 2026

      I've got a A9000 on a 973 as well. No issues running windows. I'd be highly suspicious of an unsupported linux driver. 

  • EricTheRedFL's avatar
    EricTheRedFL
    Aspirant
    Jul 28, 2026

    It's linking on 48 and 69, tx power is 23 and 12dBm respectively.

     

     

     

    There are no RBS involved. I just have a small condo.

     

     

     

    This is my only wifi7 adapter at the moment. It is 12 ft. directly across the room, clear line-of-site between the adapter and the RBR. I'm using the mainline kernel drivers included with Fedora. This behavior isn't specific to a kernel version, as I started having the problem under Fedora 44 and now have the A9000 conntected to a Fedora Rawhide (bleeding edge version) that behaves the same. The problem started under 7.1.something kernel and continues with 7.2.0-0.rc4 for F45. The Linux driver loads the mt7925u (u for usb) driver within the mt7

     

    cfg80211 1691648 4 mt76,mac80211,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common 
mac80211 2076672 4 mt792x_lib,mt76,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common 
mt76 184320 6 mt792x_lib,mt792x_usb,mt76_usb,mt7925u,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common
mt76_connac_lib 122880 3 mt792x_lib,mt7925u,mt7925_common 
mt76_usb 49152 2 mt792x_usb,mt7925u 
mt7925_common 184320 1 mt7925u 
mt7925u 16384 0 
mt792x_lib 86016 3 mt792x_usb,mt7925u,mt7925_common 
mt792x_usb 16384 1 mt7925u

     

    I haven't trashed my Win11 partitions yet, so I'll boot WinDoze and compare config output.