[Solved] WIFI (8192cu) does not work after waking the system

[loosemonkey]

When I close my laptop lid, the laptop goes into a sleep "Suspend" mode. When I turn it back on "wake it up" from the 'Suspend/Sleep' state the wifi adapter (RTL8192 1.11 Driver / EDUP, N8505GS wifi device) is unable to establish a connection to the wifi station on its own "it hangs connecting". The only way work around this, I tried and it worked is removing the wifi adapter/dongle from the usb port and reinserting it back into usb port, then it is able to connect to the wifi station again. Any tips what I can do or try instead of replugging the bloody thing everytime after the standby/suspend mode? thanks!

[bw123]

There are several good threads on the forum about it. When you wake/resume, instead of unplugging and plugging the device, try to get the device to work by using modprobe to remove and reinsert the module. If that is successful, then a script would probably work, maybe in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d or perhaps /lib/systemd/system-sleep

There may be other ways to convince the system to ignore the device during suspend, search a little on the forum and you'll get the idea. It shouldn't be that hard to find something that works.

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=debian+usb+wifi+suspend

[loosemonkey]

There are several good threads on the forum about it. When you wake/resume, instead of unplugging and plugging the device, try to get the device to work by using modprobe to remove and reinsert the module. If that is successful, then a script would probably work, maybe in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d or perhaps /lib/systemd/system-sleep

There may be other ways to convince the system to ignore the device during suspend, search a little on the forum and you'll get the idea. It shouldn't be that hard to find something that works.

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=debian+usb+wifi+suspend

thanks bud, the command below solved the issue (just gotta script/add this into the 'resume/wake' startup mode, looking this up):

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modprobe -r 8192cu ; modprobe 8192cu

[stevepusser]

What works for me with my built-in Intel wifi is to create a file called /etc/pm/config.d/config with the contents:

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SUSPEND_MODULES="iwlwifi"

That unloads the module before suspend and reloads it afterwards. Replace or add your module name. This is on MX Linux booted with sysvinit, but I got the solution from an Ubuntu thread for a version that used systemd.