Wi-Fi issues after updating from Fedora Workstation 41 to 42

[didiksupriadi41 (Didik Supriadi)]

looks like it has been reported by this post:

Fedora 42 in-place update completely broke Wi-Fi on my StarLite Mk V

So I do the in-place update from Fedora spin KDE Plasma 41, and when I log in, no WiFi. Not even the on-off switch or neighbor’s networks. Bluetooth tethering works, so I use it to update an additional 10 packages and reboot but still nothing. Ran “sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi” and I see errors. “Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-jf-b0-[number].ucode failed with error -2” is repeated several times, with [number] counting down from 89 to 78. I can see right before that in the log that it did de…