I've upgraded 3 laptops. In each case, both ethernet and wifi disappeared on the first boot into Fedora 21. Rebooting fixed the issue. Woogie On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 13:25 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've lost WiFi on upgrading my Thinkpad T61 from Fedora-20/KDE to Fedora-21, > using fedup. > The WiFi card is Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 . > I have what I assume is the correct driver - iwl5965 (and iwlegacy) loaded, > > When I run "sudo ip link show" the following interfaces are listed: > 1: lo > 2: enp0s25: > 3: wlp3s0: > I take it the last means the WiFi card is seen? > > But now I get > [tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill > I'm not sure what this signifies? > > [tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo rfkill list > gives > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > > But after [tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo rfkill unblock all > I can run > [tim@rose tmp]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up > without complaint. > > Now ifconfig shows the interface, > but without the local IP address > given in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp3s0 > Maybe NM no longer reads this file? > > After > [tim@rose tmp]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 192.168.2.3 > ifconfig shows this correct local address. > > But I am unable to connect to any other machine, > and the router does not log any attempted connectiion. > > Any advice or elucidation gratefully received. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > gayleard /at/ eircom.net > School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
