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I have issues with my wifi connection on ubuntu 20.04. It disconnects randomly only with my home wifi. I'm kinda getting mad after this issue, thus I am trying to monitor everything I can in order to find possible causes to this issue. I ran sudo dmesg and I found at the very beginnig of which seems a log of my connection activities, the following message: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS. Can anyone explain me what is it? Can it be related to the connection issues I am facing? I don't even know what WGDS and WRDS are.

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Example of output of sudo dmesg | grep WRDS:

[    4.803894] iwlwifi 0000:52:00.0: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
[ 3323.493255] iwlwifi 0000:52:00.0: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
[ 4427.419793] iwlwifi 0000:52:00.0: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS

This message is related to information stored in the BIOS about the wifi device; It seems that WGDS and WRDS are related to geolocation and radio transmission power limitations.

The message sometimes appear during boot or, in some cases upon coming back from a sleep state, depending on the BIOS implementation. source

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