I lost wireless networking after upgrading to Fedora 34. I can see from the logs that it is not loading the firmware. Any idea how to fix it?
Before upgrade:
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3160, REV=0x164
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: base HW address: 34:e6:ad:97:5f:0e
After upgrade:
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode failed with error -2
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi-3160-17 is required
iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
A common solution (workaround) when there is a problem with a package is to downgrade it. It appears, however, that the previous version of iwl3160-firmware was never available in Fedora Linux 34. For a simple package like firmware, I think you should be OK downgrading across release versions. You can do so by specifying the --releasever=XX option to dnf downgrade. In your case, I think it would be the following.
If downgrading the firmware resolves the problem, you can pin it temporarily with the following so that the broken version doesn’t install the next time you update.
Well it is my fault. I didn’t set things up right when I installed the new hard drive some years back. It hasn’t been updating the /boot used by grub2. I’ve played around with it and got it to show the newer kernels but grub2 fails to find them for some reason. I’d love to fix it but not sure if it is worth doing at this point. Might be easier to just reinstall.
I got it to boot the latest kernel. The old kernel’s loader/entries/ file had /vmlinuz… While the new one had /boot/vmlinuz… Removing the “/boot” worked although I suspect new kernels will have the /boot prefix so it will break on update.
