No more wifi...at all

Hi,

Im writing from my phone since I don’t have wifi anymore on my laptop.

I don’t know what happened but I had to hard reboot because it was impossible to wake up from suspend and now I have no wifi.

I’m on fedora 41 kernel 6 12.10 with KDE 6.3 up to date. AMD Ryzen 7 4800U.

I tried to boot with an older kernel and it’s the same.

What is strange its that I can’t activate or deactivate the wifi. Bluetooth is ok bit that is all. Even airplane mode doesn’t exist anymore.

I don’t know if it a fedora or kde issue…

What can I do

Thanks

I don’t think it’s a KDE issue. It sounds like you are missing the correct firmware, just check the output of dmesg and it will mention it at some place if that’s the case.

So strange…I let my laptop off all the night and now the wifi is back.

How can I know what was the issue ? I will report a bug if it’s possible

Hi - if it’s not a firmware issue as @jsalatas said, then it sounds to me like a hardware problem in either your device’s Wi-Fi module itself, or some circuitry that’s providing power to that module.

I haven’t had that exact problem on laptops before, but I have had it on a desktop - I was able to reboot and fiddle with hard resets (pulling the power cord) and keep it going for a while, but eventually had to solve it by replacing the wireless card.

For a laptop, it might be worth checking around online - including at your distribution’s forums: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ - to see if your device has any specific kernel modules, firmware updates, or settings (like disabling power-saving modes) that are needed for it to function well on Linux. Some laptop manufacturers have historically used non-standard wireless hardware that isn’t always well-supported by the upstream Linux kernel.