from the answers above, no wifi device is detected
the four you can see are all “UP”
I can think of a HW problem or wrong driver. mine is:
$ rpm -qa | grep iwlwifi
iwlwifi-agn-ucode-20250413-1.noarch
Do you need WWAN? If not, does turning it off make a difference?
@neil452 this is something to try that might work.
If user manually downloads to a folder containing no other .rpm files (assuming ROME x86_64):
kf6-networkmanager-qt-6.13.0-1.x86_64
networkmanager-1.52.0-3.x86_64
networkmanager-ppp-1.52.0-3.x86_64
networkmanager-wifi-1.52.0-3.x86_64
lib64networkmanager-gir1.0-1.52.0-3.x86_64
lib64nm0-1.52.0-3.x86_64
plasma6-nm-6.3.4-2.x86_64
from:
kf6-networkmanager-qt-6.13.0-1-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
lib64networkmanager-gir1.0-1.52.0-3-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
lib64nm0-1.52.0-3-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
networkmanager-1.52.0-3-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
networkmanager-ppp-1.52.0-3-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
networkmanager-wifi-1.52.0-3-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
plasma6-nm-6.3.4-2-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
Then disconnect the smartphone and any other internet connection and run:
sudo rpm -e --nodeps kf6-networkmanager-qt lib64networkmanager-gir1.0 lib64nm0 networkmanager networkmanager-ppp networkmanager-wifi plasma6-nm
Then in the folder with only these 7 .rpm files:
sudo dnf in *.rpm
Then still with nothing else internet connected reboot and click on networkmanager icon in system tray and see if the users wifi card router or connection is present.
Explanation: The idea is that by erasing all those packages we remove any non default configuration. Then you install all 7 of the removed packages reboot and see if anything changes. If this is done correctly the worst case is that we are back where we started.
This may be a bug as @neil452 reports “It works fine on OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, MX (but not Fedora latest)”.
“rpm -qa | grep iwlwifi” returns the same as yours.
@ben79 I tried your suggestion. Entering the first command returned lots of lines of
warning: posix.fork(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn(
) or rpm.execute() instead
I carried on, though, but nothing’s changed unfortunately.
Incidentally, I still have Fedora 42 on another partition. I just updated it, and the wifi now works on Fedora. That issue seems to be covered in this post I found: Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2361136
It seems to have been a kernel update that fixed it. I wonder if that’s the issue with OpenMandriva also? Perhaps I need to wait for a new kernel.
Also, I just switched repositories to Cooker, but it hasn’t helped.
If it is a kernel issue you could try to install and boot into the rc kernel kernel-rc-desktop.
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Those warnings are nothing to worry about. Sorry that suggestion did not work.
The idea that this is a missing kernel module is a definite possibility and a newer kernel may have that. It would be a good idea to try the latest kernel-rc-desktop which you can download here:
kernel-rc-desktop-6.15.0-0.rc5.1-omv2590.x86_64.rpm
It is more recent than the .rc2.1 version in ROME (rolling) repos.
No need to apologise; it might’ve worked, thank you for the idea.
I’ll try the kernel later today, thanks for the link. (@mKay also thanks)
It looks like one of the 6.13.x kernels would work, but since it is a new install, I doubt you have that in your grub list to boot to for testing.
If you want to try an older kernel like 6.13.x they are available here. Don’t worry that they say Cooker, all kernels are built for Cooker and then go down branch to ROME and Rock.
@ben79 When you go back and install the older kernels, does that install the headers and modules as well, so it can rebuild the initrc?
The 6.13.9 was good.
It builds the initrd.img ect. And installing older kernels is just like any kernel install. The script runs dracut and updates the grub2 menu like for any kernel. I have done this a fair number of times.
When 6.14 gave us network errors, we fell back to 6.13.9 and everything worked. That would be my first choice.
I installed the rc kernel from your link, and my wifi is now working perfectly. My mouse stutter has also gone. (I don’t understand why that was related somehow.)
Brilliant. Thank you everyone for your help. I’m very grateful.
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