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junebugss

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Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

I am currently unable to use my laptops Wifi.
It was working well up until a few days ago, possibly falling together with an update of linux-firmware?

The device does not show up anymore in:

• ip link/ip a

• /sys/class/net

• iwctl device list

The Card is officially supported by iwlwifi, and lspci shows:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] [8086:0085] (rev 96)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:c220]
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi

however, dmesg | grep iwlwifi shows:

[    4.841853] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[    4.850603] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a1, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a1 wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a1
[    4.850713] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: PCI dev 0085/c220, rev=0xb0, rfid=0xd55555d5
[    4.850719] iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 0085/c220, rev=0xb0, rfid=0xd55555d5
[    4.850745] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: probe with driver iwlwifi failed with error -22

journalctl shows the exact same.

I have tried a reinstall of Linux-Firmware, as well as a rollback to the last working version, both did not change the situation.

Is there another possible cause for this?

Last edited by junebugss (2025-08-23 14:29:02)

gromit

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

Could you try switching to linux-lts?

loqs

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=307644 waiting for bisection response.

gromit

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

Ah thanks for the pointer loqs! I had already forgotten about the other thread even though I subscribed to it

junebugss

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

Could you try switching to linux-lts?

This actually did the trick.

What could be the cause of this, so i can switch back to other kernels later?

seth

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

See the thread loqs linked in #3

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gromit

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Re: Wifi Network Interface not shown anymore [SOLVED]

If you could help testing kernels in the other thread that would be highly appreciated