Manjaro ARM for Pinebook

[MECZero]

Hi.

If you face problems with the Wifi connection when on battery like me then you can try a parameter for the wifi driver config file 8723cs.conf.

The parameter will turn off wifi power management.
To add the parameter you have to open 8723cs.conf with an editor of your choice and use sudo to get system access rights.

e.g.

sudo notepadqq /etc/modprobe.d/8723cs.conf

Add rtw_power_mgnt=0 at the end of the one line in that config file. In the end it should look similar to this (the MAC address will be different)

options 8723cs rtw_initmac=00:ba:ch:16:85:46 rtw_power_mgnt=0

Then save and reboot.

Since I used this change connection did not drop once.

Please test and reply if it works for you.
Also it would be interesting to know if you experience any difference in battery life when the wifi power management is turned off. So far I have not noticed a difference but there might be other experiences.

KDE version installed now and running smooth. However, I still have the wifi disabled. I tried editing that config file but it was already set with the change you suggested.

Anyone else have a fix or work-around for this issue to get wifi working again?

Apparently manjaro KDE on eMMC is super smooth.

Good to know! It's running pretty good on the SD, so I think I'll go ahead with installing it to eMMC. Just need to figure out how to get wifi working again...