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Subject: Re: Hangs with NetworkManager and rtw8723_de with kernel 6.1
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On 3/2/23 00:24, François Valenduc wrote:
> 
> Le 2/03/23 à 02:27, Ping-Ke Shih a écrit :
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: François Valenduc <francoisvalenduc@gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 2:26 PM
>>> To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>>> Subject: Hangs with NetworkManager and rtw8723_de with kernel 6.1
>>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> systemrescue recently switched from kernel 5.15 to kernel 6.1 and
>>> NetworkManager started to hangs at startup. This seems to be linked to
>>> my wifi card (RTL8723DE). I am also able to reproduce the problem under
>>> gentoo with the same versions for NetworkManager and linux-firmware than
>>> those used in systemrescue (1.42.2 and 20230210). Under gentoo, the
>>> problem appears with kernel 6.1.14 and 6.2.1. I am able to use
>>> NetworkManager and systemrescue without problem on another computer
>>> which has another wifi card.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a solution to this problem ?
>>>
>> I think this problem is the same as
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217016
>>
>> Ping-Ke
>>
>>
> This is indeed the same bug. I applied this patch on top of kernel 6.1.14 and 
> the hang doesn't occur anymore, neither in Gentoo or in SystemRescue. I see this 
> patch has been merged in mainline and marked for stable. However, it is not 
> included in the current review for 6.1.15. I hope it will make it to stable 
> kernels soon.

Thanks Ping-Ke for the help here. I am glad the problem is solved.

For your information, that patch is included in the rtw88 repo at GitHub.com.

Larry