Hello
I bought a GEEKOM A5 Mini PC | R7-5825U for HA.
I installed HAOS directly on the Mini as recommended and then restored a backup.
HA is up to date and all available updates have been installed.
It appears to have the “Realtek rtw89_8852be WiFi chip” installed.
This chip causes me massive problems several times a day.
I use the LAN connection for HA OS and the WiFi connection to query my inverter.
This worked perfectly on my old Intel NUC and, when that broke, on my laptop, always without any problems.
Now I didn’t want to always use my laptop, so I bought the Geekom A5 without expecting hardware problems to suddenly arise.
If HAOS were a normal Linux, I would try to install an older or newer kernel, but that doesn’t seem to be so easy.
The problem itself is that the Wi-Fi connection drops several times a day and the Wi-Fi chip cannot re-establish the connection because it is stuck in a continuous busy state.
Can anyone help me, because I would rather not buy a Wi-Fi dongle for a new mini PC.
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.772 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.773 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.773 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.773 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.773 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.774 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.775 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.775 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.775 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.775 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.776 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.776 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.776 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.776 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.776 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.777 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.777 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:14.782 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: FW does not process h2c registers
2025-12-02 15:20:14.782 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: HW scan failed with status: -110
2025-12-02 15:20:14.783 homeassistant wpa_supplicant[680]: wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-110 retry=1
2025-12-02 15:20:15.886 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: Update probe request failed
2025-12-02 15:20:15.990 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: rtw89_hw_scan_offload failed ret -110
2025-12-02 15:20:15.995 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: FW does not process h2c registers
2025-12-02 15:20:15.996 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.996 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.996 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.998 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: write rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.998 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.998 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.998 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
2025-12-02 15:20:15.999 homeassistant kernel: rtw89_8852be 0000:03:00.0: read rf busy swsi
The log is endlessly filled with these messages.
I then have to run “ha host restart” once, often several times, so that the chip resumes its “normal” operation, and as I said, this happens several times a day.