Hello,
This has been my first time with u blue os’. I have been really trying to try out Aurora but I have had a major issue where after 24 hours of a clean install. Both the live image and the newly installed Aurora just lose wi-fi capabilities, only registering the Ethernet port in the motherboard I can’t use because the tower is located way too far from modem and is a heavy sucker. I have been trying to fix this from restarting network manager to creating a fresh install image and even trying rebasing to different versions before the time limit but it just keeps dying on me. I am at my wits end with this.
Did anyone else have a similar experience and was able to fix this? My wi-fi card is an Intel ax 200 mounted to the motherboard for reference. It’s never given me trouble on Linux before except on this os. (Besides the time I tried to net install Debian with no drivers for it but that was on me for not knowing Debian that well at the time.)
Thank you in advance for any help or input on this.
Hi, can you be sure your network is still alive? Did you test it with, let’s say, your phone? Maybe it is good to reboot your network equipment. I mean, when you have problems with the live image as well as the installed version.
I can confidently say the network is still alive. Phone, fire stick, windows installed devices, etc. connect to the modem. With Aurora, it’s like it forgets the concept of Wi-fi. It retains the data for the modem connection but it just decides after 24 hours that it has no idea what a Wi-fi is and will only accept an Ethernet connection.
Try this:
Open a Terminal and type this:
journalctl -g wifi
That will search the logs for everything containing the word wifi.
Now type capital G to Goto the end, then look for errors. You can use the arrows to scroll back if you need to.
This is what mine looks like:
-- Boot 14002fd0e59f49c282b7efd6fe8e5531 --
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x400410, cnv-id 0x400410 wfpm id 0x80000000
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: PCI dev 2725/0024, rev=0x420, rfid=0x10d000
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.42
Jun 23 17:03:13 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: loaded firmware version 89.7f71c7f4.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-89.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: loaded PNVM version f8766ebf
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: base HW address: redacted
Jun 23 17:03:14 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0 wlp11s0: renamed from wlan0
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712646.0727] Read config: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf (lib: 20-connectivity-fedora.conf, 22-wifi-mac-addr>
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712646.0768] rfkill1: found Wi-Fi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00>
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712646.0832] Loaded device plugin: NMWifiFactory (/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/1.50.3-1.fc41/libnm-device-plugin-wifi.so)
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 1
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
Jun 23 17:04:06 bluefin kernel: iwlwifi 0000:0b:00.0: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
Jun 23 17:04:10 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712650.1385] device (wlp11s0): Activation: (wifi) access point 'redacted' has security, but secrets are required.
Jun 23 17:04:10 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712650.1410] device (wlp11s0): Activation: (wifi) connection 'redacted' has security, and secrets exist. No new se>
Jun 23 17:04:10 bluefin NetworkManager[3815]: <info> [1750712650.3282] device (wlp11s0): Activation: (wifi) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless n>
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I followed the instructions. On Jun 26, there is a bunch of red text mentioning Host monitor block 0x0 vector 0x0 and other things.
I took a picture of the red text. Let me know if a screen shot would be more helpful.
Edit: I deleted the original version of this reply since I’m stupid and now embarrassed for writing that prematurely. I had windows fast boot enabled which happened to hold my wifi card for it while off and made it impossible for the Linux system to use. (Since windows tried to reserve it every reboot.)
I found this out since I had the same problem with an older kernel trying to set up the next distro only to find the wi-fi gone again. Turned off fast boot remembering that I hadn’t turned that off. Had a spark to see if that was messing with it. Grabbed the Aurora installer. Aurora has wi-fi, instead of the not seeing it.
I’m sorry for wasting everyone’s time on this. I forgot fast boot can mess up dual boots because of things like this when I was going through the yearly clean installs.
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That’s good info, and will help someone in the future.
Sorry I had nothing else to offer.
No worries, I still appreciate you jumping into help.
