I've been unable to replicate this so far; tried with four different USB-SATA cables attaching boot storage to USB3 on a Pi 4B and a Pi 400; wifi worked happily in each case. Given this was expired for Eoan (a couple of years ago) I'll close this as invalid for now; please re-open if this is still an issue.
** Changed in: linux-raspi2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-raspi2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861338 Title: RPI4 wifi unreliable when usb3 storage is attached Status in linux-raspi2 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-raspi2 source package in Eoan: Expired Bug description: On RPI4, if you set up netplan to use wifi, and plug in a usb3 storage device to one of the 2x usb3 ports (the ones closest to the ethernet port), wifi will sudden stop working. If you unplug the usb stick while running a ping, it will usually start working again almost instantaneously. Kernel version I have is: 5.3.0-1017-raspi2 and I've confirmed this happens on both armhf and arm64 The only thing I found in journalctl that looks suspicious is this, but it seems to have happened before plugging in the usb stick: Jan 29 20:54:59 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1129]: random: Cannot read from /dev/random: Resource temporarily unavailable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-raspi2/+bug/1861338/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp