After a dnf update today, I was unable to bring up my normal wireless connection on a Dell XPS 17 laptop. I was able to get a connection via my cellphone, and did a "dnf downgrade iwl*-firmware NetworkManager*", and after a reboot I am back online.
From info in /var/log/messages, it looks like the relevant firmware packages are iwl7260-firmware-1:25.30.13.0-76.fc25.noarch which was downgraded to iwl7260-firmware-1:25.30.13.0-68.fc25.noarch.
I'm happy to open a bugzilla if there isn't one on this issue, but it seems to me I should have more info than what I posted above, and so am looking for advice/guidance from the list.
Thanks in advance!
On 09/23/2017 03:07 PM, Go Canes wrote:
I'm happy to open a bugzilla if there isn't one on this issue, but it seems to me I should have more info than what I posted above, and so am looking for advice/guidance from the list.
The journal output would be very helpful. If you remember how many times you rebooted, you can run "journalctl -b -2" where you replace the 2 with how many times you rebooted. If you don't know, then you can run "journalctl --list-boots" to find out which one. Searching for "iwl" should get you to the right area in the log.
(Concluding this thread with the resolution in case anyone else stumbles across a similar issue) Over the Christmas holiday I was able to troubleshoot this and determine what happened.....
At some point in the past I had created a file that was supposed to prevent MAC address randomization (this was done to troubleshoot a prior connectivity problem). Apparently the update to NetworkManager caused it to *start* doing MAC address randomization instead. I removed the file, and the problem resolved.
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