A strange thing happened to my laptop: I installed no updates and didn’t make any configuration changes after I booted yesterday (and I had no issues yesterday), and yet this morning when I booted up, I did not have any working network connections. I can’t connect to wifi, and it’s not even connecting to a hotspot on my phone.
I had been affected by the iwlwifi update a few week back, but even with that issue, I was able to connect to my phone’s hotspot.
I tried booting from old snapshots (both pre and post the aforementioned iwlwifi issue), but they all have the same problem. The only thing I did between last night and today’s boot, was charge the laptop while it was off.
When I do ip address show
, it shows the following (below the loopback entry):
2: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether <redacted>
sudo nmcli dev status
shows:
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
lo loopback unmanaged __
wlp0s20f3 wifi unmanaged __
The NetworkManager service is active. rfkill shows nothing blocking wifi.
I have an Intel Raptor Lake PCH CNVi on a Dell XPS-15 9350.
I just tried booting from a live USB, and was able to connect to wifi, so it seems to be unique to my Tumbleweed installation, and not a hardware issue. The issue occurs in multiple desktop/WM environments.
Any suggestions on how to further troubleshoot this issue? Any help is appreciated.