Network card not detected
Okay, kind of a long question because there are weird circumstances: I got a very new laptop and promptly installed fedora 23 workstation on it, and right away I noticed that the network manager didn't list any WiFi options, and that there was something going on with the display settings (no brightness controls, etc) but i was mostly focused on getting WiFi working, so after some research I updated the kernel (via https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rawhid... ). This solved all my display issues, but I still had no Wi-Fi, so I tried find any solution other than buying an external adapter. I ended up using lspci and lspci -v multiple times; I didn't get anywhere but I noticed that there was a driver in use for my network controller, which was in fact detected. That was a day or two ago, and I haven't used fedora since then, but I just went back to see if I could get the card working since there seemed to be a driver. Now, it isn't detected at all by lspci. I remember it was a Qualcomm Atheros device 0042 thanks to my Google history. Any idea what happened or things to try? I can use an Ethernet connection if necessary.
Add http://rmpfusion.org nonfree after that add akmod-wl that may install the Atheros kernel modules.
Did not seem to have an effect. However, the network card is detected again. Here is the relevant information from
lspci -v
:A driver appears to exist. Is it possible to get it to work somehow?
if it is detected it should works, do you have installed this package NetworkManager-wifi
if not install it.
it should work if module is loaded and NetworkManager wifi is installed
Is there a way to ensure the module is loaded, or to force it?