Hello all. So, right to it, I'm trying to download Doom Eternal on Steam and while doing so, my wifi seems to just stop. The icon still shows that I'm connected, network manager doesn't show anything out of the ordinary to my knowledge (which is possibly wrong), and this doesn't happen during any other internet use except for YouTube, possibly any streaming (or at least if it does, I'm not at my PC long enough to see it happen).
If I wait long enough, eventually the wifi will resume working. Usually this takes a few minutes. systemctl restart NetworkManager.service also "fixes" it though it will happen again during the download and I assume other sizable downloads as well or perhaps some other heavy load. What's more is that, whether I wait or I restart the network manager, once this happens a third time, I'm asked for my wifi password. No problem if it weren't for the fact that authentication fails each time even though it's the correct password. At this point I'm just disconnected. This is the output of systemctl status NetworkManager.service after that happens (just omitted the ssid and pc name).
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
└─NetworkManager-ovs.conf
Active: active (running) (thawing) since Fri 2021-01-01 20:27:32 EST; 1min 12s ago
Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
Main PID: 4147 (NetworkManager)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 19093)
Memory: 3.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─4147 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
Jan 01 20:27:53 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550873.9574] device (wlp0s20u6): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'supplicant-disconnect', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jan 01 20:27:53 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550873.9579] device (p2p-dev-wlp0s20u6): supplicant management interface state: 4way_handshake -> disconnected
Jan 01 20:27:54 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550874.0559] device (wlp0s20u6): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Jan 01 20:27:54 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550874.0559] device (p2p-dev-wlp0s20u6): supplicant management interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Jan 01 20:28:14 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <warn> [1609550894.5972] device (wlp0s20u6): no secrets: User canceled the secrets request.
Jan 01 20:28:14 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550894.5972] device (wlp0s20u6): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jan 01 20:28:14 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550894.5975] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
Jan 01 20:28:14 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <warn> [1609550894.5983] device (wlp0s20u6): Activation: failed for connection '********'
Jan 01 20:28:14 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550894.5985] device (wlp0s20u6): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jan 01 20:28:17 pc NetworkManager[4147]: <info> [1609550897.3008] manager: startup complete
So, I'm stumped here. I have one of those TP-Link adapters, an old one, a wn721n which also just wasn't working at all until the 5.10 kernel, though the same was true of my Arch drive. However, this seems to be an issue I'm only getting on Solus because I'm not getting this on Arch and, well I like Solus better so I don't want to use Arch. I believe I should have the right drivers, the broadcom-sta-current and common packages in the software center. Halp
