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Never posted an issue here so here goes. I had an issue with the wifi not being enabled on the latest Solus update. Lenovo yoga 14. I'll report back with more info on hardware when I get a chance. Of there are version numbers needed let me know. I keep my system up to date so this would have been a recent change.

Performed a rollback and all is good for now.

Actually had to perform two rollbacks. First one the wifi card wasn't seen at all.

Event Timeline

Here is my working wifi info from lscpi output.

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 134
Memory at d4a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number b8-8a-60-ff-ff-d6-c6-99
Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [154] L1 PM Substates
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

I used to use that card and I remember it being butchered by multiple Linux releases.

Could you try to upgrade and check your log for any errors relating to iwlwifi?

Edit: In the meantime, I would recommend using the LTS kernel, it usually fixes any WiFi issues with the current kernel until we get a new release fixing the bug.

DataDrake triaged this task as Needs More Info priority.Jan 10 2021, 4:57 PM
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The XXX0 chipsets have notoriously bad support on Linux, so I can't say I'm surprised. I agree that linux-lts might work better for you.

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