Latest update seems to disrupt my wifi

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I’m running TW Gnome Wayland Btrfs on an MSI AMD Ryzen laptop. I ran sudo zypper dup this morning and after rebooting my wifi stopped working. I did some troubleshooting and my wifi adapter was there but the Settings Wifi module was scanning but not seeing any of the many surrounding wifi hotspots. I rolled back to a kernal 6.19.5 snapshot and now my wifi is working again totally fine.

My plan is to stay on 6.19.5 until a future update works with my wifi adapter.

I’m open to suggestions. I’m a noob and know very little about troubleshooting and CLI.

Anyone having issues with wifi after recent updates?

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@invalid_user_name and at “20260331” ? Kernel 6.19.5 is old…

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TW 20260331 includes:

==== wireless-regdb ====
Version update (20251007 → 20260318)

  • Update to version 2026-03-18:
    • db2bin.py: Switch from M2Crypto to python-cryptography.
    • Update regulatory rules for Australia (AU), Canada (CA),
      Greece (GR), Malaysia (MY), and Tunisia (TN).
    • Update documentation URL in regulatory.bin.5.
  • Update to version 20260318:
    • wireless-regdb: update regulatory database based on preceding changes
    • wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for India (IN) on 6GHz
    • wireless-regdb: Replace M2Crypto with cryptography package
    • wireless-regdb: Fix regulatory.bin signing with new M2Crypto
    • wireless-regdb: update regulatory database based on preceding changes
    • wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for Canada (CA) for 2025
    • wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for Tunisia (TN) on 6GHz for 2025
    • wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for Malaysia (MY) for 2025
    • wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for Malaysia (MY) for 2024
    • wireless-regdb: Update broken link in regulatory.bin(5) manpage

maybe just downgrading that is worth a shot?

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I didn’t understand what you mean by this. Could you clarify?

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Yes. But 6.19.5 allows my wifi to work. 6.19.10 seems to break my wifi. Some kind of kernel bug in 6.19.10 that breaks some wifi adapters?

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Hmmm… I appreciate your suggestion, but as a Linux noob I couldn’t parse or understand the suggestion.

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He means at this point in time March 31 2026
Tumbleweed is a rolling release

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So you are running an old snapshot now? If so you have installed the old wireless-regdb.
Try to update that single package, via Myrlyn or YaST2-Software or with zypper up wireless-regdb.
Reboot, just to be sure that the new version is engaged.
If WiFi works, regdb is not the culprit and the kernel is next on the list.
If WiFi does not work, revert to the snapshot that works, lock wireless-regdb with Myrlyn or YaST2-Software or zypper addlock wireless-regdband try zypper dupagain.

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Is there a more efficient way of seeing what changes a new snapshot brings? Your post seems to imply that

I know how to query the information with rpm on individual packages but that’s not very scalable for hundreds of packages at a time

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@newsense Hi and welcome to the Forum :smile:
The snapshot announcement covers the important changes, so follow the link and peruse.

Bear in mind the next snapshot will be large, a full rebuild has taken place due to the Python 3.14 modules…

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Hi @malcolmlewis

Thanks for your welcome message and for bringing up python :slightly_smiling_face:

I was wondering if there’s an official way for migrating from python-older-version_package-name to python-latest_package-name other than chasing individual packages from zypper dup list and starting removing the old ones or installing the new ones first as the case may be?

I’m not sure what’s the best way for catching old packages that may have been rebuilt for a newer version of python in this case. Zypper dup —remove-orphaned wouldn’t be catching these things either, or at least not for a long time until their status changes.

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Ok, I ran the command “sudo zypper up wireless-regdb” and my wifi is still working. Looks like wireless-regdb is not the issue. I’m still on kernel 6.19.5.

So the kernel is next on the list. What should I do to check if and how kernel 6.19.10 is breaking my wifi? We know that 6.19.5 does not break my wifi.

How do you recommend I proceed? Remember that I’m a Linux noob.

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Does this help? —> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/0e4271c7fa6e

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I forgot to mention that I did a reboot right after successfully running “sudo zypper up wireless-regdb”.

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There is clearly an issue with the iwlwifi interface and kernel 6.19.10 had a number of changes in the wireless area, so trying for instance 6.19.9 might be useful.
Please check if you have kernels newer than 6.19.5 installed and if so try to boot one of those.
If not so, kernel 6.19.9 is still available here , you can download and install manually (just double-clicking on the downloaded .rpm file should do that).

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In my Grub menu I found a snapshot with 6.19.9 and booted into that. My wifi seems to be working fine with this kernel so I’ll stick with it until a future kernel fixes the wifi bugs.

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I’ll keep an eye out for when TW moves beyond 6.19.10 and look at the release notes and try that update.

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@invalid_user_name A bug report would probably help here? There is a link in the Forum side panel for submitting :wink:

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@newsense a zypper -vvv dup should provide additional information, I’ve not had any issues with old versions of python being replaced with new, I do check afterwards for any stragglers…

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Do you have an AX210 wifi card? Could you please provide “inxi -N”? As already mentioned by @malcolmlewis, a bug report will help to pin down the culprit, as it involves openSUSE’s kernel experts.