I just got my Steam Deck OLED, and it just won’t connect to my internet. All my other devices connect fine, including my LCD Steam Deck, but the OLED just won’t. I’ve tried it with both my home internet and my phone’s hotspot. It was happening during setup, too, but after multiple restarts I eventually got it connected to my phone’s hotspot long enough to finish updates, but it hasn’t been able to connect to either network since. The networks won’t even show up as options to connect to sometimes. Does anyone else have any experience with this? I’ve been looking around and trying things other people have said and not of them have worked.

I’ve tried:

  1. setting IPv6 to automatic and tried disabling it

  2. Turning off WI-FI power management

  3. Forgetting the SSID and manually entering the info

  4. splitting up my network to separate SSID’s for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, neither worked

  • Ponald-Dump@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So my network was already split into 2.4 and 5G and I connected mine to the 5 when I unboxed it and all was fine for a few hours. I managed to download a handful of games and then powered down. Came back a few hours later and all of a sudden it wouldn’t connect to anything.

    As simple as it sounds, I made the SD forget the 5g network and connected it to the 2.4 and restarted it. It’s been working fine ever since

  • First_Degree_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is such bullshit.

    Just received my LE and it won’t connect to either 2.4 or 5 band at initial setup - no other device has issues on the network…

    Between this and the screen sourcing/dead pixel reports, may say screw an RMA and just ask for a refund, stick with the trusty LCD that’s still a champ. 😕

  • Genghis_Tr0n187@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So just had this problem, I was using my Deck all day and after leaving it in sleep then waking it up, it refused to connect to WIFI or even see any networks at one point. This is definitely a bug.

    I did manage to fix it though (for now), I was running the preview channel build and switched back to stable and now it connects just fine.

    If you’re running anything other than stable, switch to the stable build. If you’re not and have access to a dock and ethernet, upgrade to the beta channel and see if that fixes it. If it doesn’t work on beta, go back to stable and see if that works.

  • BathmanNick@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Disabling the 160hz band on the 5g on my router fixed it for me. Once it broke I couldn’t connect to either 2.4g or 5g until I did that

  • Used-Alarm@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My OLED will not connect to WPA3. Even in Transition Mode. I had to create a new network using the older WPA2 security mode…

  • neodata686@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This seems to be a firmware issue connecting to particular wifi 6 chipsets (like in my RT-AX86U Asus router).

    A few solutions:

    1. Connect to 2.4ghz
    2. Turn off 160ghz channel for wifi 6
    3. Change General -> Settings -> 24-hour clock to ON

    Solutions 1 and 2 seem to maybe require a restart before working. I just tested solution 3 and it worked right away. So I’m going with that one right now.