Thanks everyone for the answers and the help. I finally disconnected main power, open up the laptop, removed both batteries, removed the wifi card, and then put it back in.
That did the trick. My wifi is working again!
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- 2021-09-13 06:47
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
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- 2021-09-12 09:27
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4688
Re: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
That has never worked on any of my thinkpads on linux. But I did try it now to no avail.maybe try the Fn key + F8
- 2021-09-12 08:28
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
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Re: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
I wish it did. It does not.By chance, does that Lenovo happen to have a WiFi switch on the side of it? It may have what looks like little monitors on each side of the switch
- 2021-09-12 07:21
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4688
Re: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
I just booted up from a debian-live-10.10.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree, where everything should work. However, it did not detect the wifi card either. No mention of anything related to the wifi card in kern.log of reported by lshw etc. I am gonna try the battery reset thing suggested by FreewheelinFrank. Ot...
- 2021-09-11 21:35
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4688
Re: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
rfkill output ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 bluetooth tpacpi_bluetooth_sw unblocked unblocked 4 bluetooth hci0 unblocked unblocked So, it's not even being detected. I did some more digging. On 9 sep, I restarted my computer, and according to kern.log (and my experience) wifi loaded fine: Sep 9 13:26:50...
- 2021-09-10 19:41
- Forum: System and Network configuration
- Topic: Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4688
Wifi randomly disappeared permanantly
This morning I had the wifi working, as it has been for the past year on this system. Later in the day, when I opened up my laptop, wifi was missing and I can't get it back. I have a Thinkpad T470 with Intel Dual Band Wireless AC(2x2) 8265. On Debian testing, and firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-...