I have a Vivobook Pro 16x which has a mediatek 7961 wifi chip and I just installed Nixos on it. Everything works except the Wifi. The wifi works occasionally, but not always.
I updated the kernel to the latest version by setting boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;, as I read that was needed for the mediatek 7961 chip to work.
I’ve also tried setting networking.networkmanager.wifi.backend = "iwd", which seems to work slightly better, but only for a few seconds.
So my wifi works for a bit, few seconds, and then nothing loads.
Are there any other settings I can try out?
Sadly I was unable to fix it through software. Luckily it was easy to replace the wifi chip. So I did that, now using an AX200 chip, which works flawlessly with the default settings in NixOS.