Wifi missing in Fedora 42
- Atul
- Technology , Web , Free software , The big o community , Linux
- August 29, 2025
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Wifi missing in Fedora 42
A quick internet search got me this thread:
- Seems like issue in kernel
they are suggesting:
sudo dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-extra-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm
atuld@fedora:~/Desktop/AtulyaWorld/5. knowledge/Knowledge Base/knowledge_base$ sudo dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-extra-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm 100% | 39.8 KiB/s | 197.1 KiB | 00m05s
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm 100% | 136.9 KiB/s | 18.8 MiB | 02m20s
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-extra-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm 100% | 55.7 KiB/s | 2.9 MiB | 00m54s
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-core-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm 100% | 102.0 KiB/s | 28.2 MiB | 04m43s
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/6.13.12/200.fc41/x86_64/kernel-modules-6.13.12-200.fc41.x86_64.rpm 100% | 136.8 KiB/s | 60.5 MiB | 07m33s
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Removing:
kernel x86_64 6.15.9-201.fc42 <unknown> 0.0 B
kernel-core x86_64 6.15.9-201.fc42 <unknown> 96.8 MiB
kernel-modules x86_64 6.15.9-201.fc42 <unknown> 93.9 MiB
kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.15.9-201.fc42 <unknown> 67.2 MiB
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 6.15.9-201.fc42 <unknown> 4.2 MiB
Installing:
kernel x86_64 6.13.12-200.fc41 @commandline 0.0 B
kernel-core x86_64 6.13.12-200.fc41 @commandline 75.3 MiB
kernel-modules x86_64 6.13.12-200.fc41 @commandline 64.3 MiB
kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.13.12-200.fc41 @commandline 37.8 MiB
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 6.13.12-200.fc41 @commandline 2.7 MiB
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 5 packages
Removing: 5 packages
Total size of inbound packages is 126 MiB. Need to download 0 B.
After this operation, 82 MiB will be freed (install 180 MiB, remove 262 MiB).
Is this ok [y/N]:
From 6.15 to 6.13. hope it works. Nope still nothing.
More relatable :
Wifi just stops working
Here they are saying to downgrade:
dnf downgrade
downgrade what?
Not working?
- Why this is happening?
- No clue… for now.
Listing kernels
sudo dnf list kernel
