No network or bluetooth after update

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Hi,

I had a problem with my external monitor not working. It’s the same dock as in this thread:

I did the command:

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-multimedia.repo && dnf install

Which didn’t work, so I also did the:

fwupdmgr update

After the last command I rebooted.

The laptop boots really really fast now, and I don’t even get to see the GRUB menu.
When logging in to Gnome I have no wireless or LAN.
The command:
ip link show
only shows the loopback interface.

USB storage works, but USB network dongle doesn’t work; dmesg detects it, but it doesn’t show up.

Anyone knows how I get my laptop to work again?

I’m kind of lost and uses my daughters laptop now :expressionless:

–
Ronni

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The command in the linked thread to get the monitor working with the dock was

These were the step I performed to get all my monitors working.
$ sudo dnf remove akmod-evdi
$ sudo dnf localinstall https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases/download/v6.0.0-1/fedora-40-displaylink-1.14.6-1.github_evdi.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo reboot
And it worked out for me. Thank you so much for your help and guidance.

So I think you can remove that repo and software you installed.

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Thank you MatH.
I removed the displaylink software, but my network still doesn’t work.

I think it was the fwupdmgr update command that broke it.

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After some trial and error I managed to get GRUB showing on boot (hold esc down on boot), and could boot on an earlier kernel.
Everything worked with an older kernel, so I did a dnf update, rebooted and now everything works again.

–
Ronni

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