Hi @computersavvy,
Thanks for your reply and thanks for looking through everything; I really appreciate it.
I’ve opened up the laptop and removed and reinstalled the Wi-Fi card. When I booted up again after I’d put the computer back together, there was still no signs of life from the Wi-Fi card in Fedora. I thought I’d try reinstalling the OS again, just to see if that helped, and after that the Wi-Fi was working again. I thought I had the problem solved, but after running dnf and updating the installation, the Wi-Fi was missing again.
Suspecting that there probably is an intermittent fault with the hardware, I thought I’d check this by reinstalling Windows. This worked fine, and the Wi-Fi has been working well for the 8 hours or so, with no problems at all. This suggests that perhaps the hardware is OK after all, but it could just be a coincidence of course. I’m not sure where to go from here really.
As the Wi-Fi was working with the fresh install of Fedora, I ran the commands I’d been advised to run and saved the output before upgrading anything, so I’ll post the output of those, just in case that sheds any light on anything.
Here’s the output of inxi -Fzx
:
System:
Kernel: 5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.37-10.fc35 Desktop: GNOME 41.0 Distro: Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20K5S17R2F v: ThinkPad X270 W10DG
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20K5S17R2F serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
v: R0IET66W (1.44 ) date: 11/19/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.0 Wh (99.7%) condition: 36.1/47.5 Wh (75.9%)
volts: 12.2 min: 10.8 model: LGC 45N1735 status: N/A
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 879 high: 900 min/max: 400/3000 cores: 1: 817 2: 900
3: 900 4: 900 bogomips: 19999
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-8:3
Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: i915 note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root
resolution: 1536x864~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-7:2
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 3.25 GiB (1.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKKF256G8L size: 238.47 GiB
temp: 27.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 236.89 GiB used: 3.09 GiB (1.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 152 MiB (15.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 13.8 MiB (2.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 236.89 GiB used: 3.09 GiB (1.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C pch: 40.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0
Info:
Processes: 268 Uptime: 6m Memory: 7.63 GiB used: 1.97 GiB (25.8%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.1 Packages: N/A
note: see --pkg Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 inxi: 3.3.12
Here’s the output of lspci -nn
:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:1904] (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] [8086:1916] (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller [8086:9d2f] (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem [8086:9d31] (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:9d60] (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:9d61] (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 [8086:9d3a] (rev 21)
00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Active Management Technology - SOL [8086:9d3d] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:9d10] (rev f1)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:9d12] (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 [8086:9d14] (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9d48] (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller [0580]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC [8086:9d21] (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio [8086:9d70] (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus [8086:9d23] (rev 21)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-LM [8086:156f] (rev 21)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:522a] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Intel Corporation SSD Pro 7600p/760p/E 6100p Series [8086:f1a6] (rev 03)
Here’s the output of dnf list installed linux-firmware
:
Installed Packages
linux-firmware.noarch 20210919-125.fc35 @anaconda
Thanks for your continued help and support with this. I’m really hoping I can get things working. It seems really odd that the card is OK under Windows but not in Fedora post-updates.