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Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available.

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved.

Whenever I suspend the laptop (or close the lid, which does it automatically) the Wifi and sometimes an external monitor don't work anymore, I don't know what the problem is. The wifi is fixed by powering on and off again. To fix the monitor sometimes even powering off and on again didn't fix it, I usually waited for the next day and it worked again.

I've no idea of how to fix this (Linux Mint forums didn't help at the time)

Laptop is an MSI GS65-Stealth-Thin-8RF running Linux Mint, with Cinnamon Desktop

journalctl output: https://sharetext.me/q7eo87psmq

System Details

System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16Q2 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16Q2IMS.112 date: 05/21/2019
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache:
L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 941 high: 1025 min/max: 800/4100 cores: 1: 913 2: 875 3: 1025 4: 867 5: 952
6: 911 7: 979 8: 921 9: 966 10: 994 11: 904 12: 988 bogomips: 52799
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915
v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104M [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
v: 535.129.03 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-2
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1ba1
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx
v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3d:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0b1
IF: enp61s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 3e:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526
IF: wlp62s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:3
chip-ID: 8087:0025
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
sub-v: 100

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  • You need to unload your wifi module before suspend.

    Without systemd it's easy:

    create a file /etc/pm/config.d/config containing:

    HOOK_BLACKLIST="wireless"
SUSPEND_MODULES=”NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE”
SUSPEND_MODULES=”wl”

    With systemd try this

    create a file /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh containing (fuck this editor, replace the "##" with "&&") :

    #!/bin/bash
[ "$1" = "post" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
[ "$1" = "pre" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe -r NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
exit 0

    and make it executable with chmod 755 /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh

    • It doesn't work, should it look like this the script?

      #!/bin/sh
[ "$1" = "post" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260
[ "$1" = "pre" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe -r Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260
exit 0

      EDIT: should the name be something like wlp62s0 ??? I'm going to try it

      • you have to replace the ## with &&

        the name should be iwlwifi

        • how do I check the name? because iwlwifi doesn't work

          • well, are you sure the script is executed? I don't know systemd enough :-(

            First, do a test in command line modprobe -r iwlwifi

            then suspend your laptop, resume it after a few seconds then do

            modprobe iwlwifi

            and see if wifi is working

            • Yeah, thanks for the help even if you don't know much. I get stuck on the first command where I get this error:

              rmmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:799 kmod_module_remove_module() could not remove 'iwlmvm': Operation not permitted
rmmod: ERROR: could not remove module iwlmvm: Operation not permitted
rmmod: ERROR: Module iwlwifi is in use by: iwlmvm
modprobe: FATAL: Error running remove command for iwlwifi

              • yes of course

                sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi

                • I've tried. After suspension but before modprobe the wifi is not available, after modprobe it is there, but is disabled and cannot be enabled.

                  • So I don't know :-(

                    Have you disabled Fast Boot in your BIOS ?

                    • It was but it got reenabled, I disabled it again but it still doesn't work damn. I'll post the Intel I gathered on the Linux mint forum (I did in the past but now I have more information)

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