I'm having issues to make Ubuntu recognize my wifi adapter which was working just fine. The issue started after the following 2 actions:
- Ubuntu update that ended up updating the firmware (my laptop is a Dell Precision 5550).
- Booting Windows 10 that I have in a separate partition and that I haven't used in a while.
So the sequence of actions was:
- Working on Ubuntu, Network working fine. Installed Ubuntu update which required a restart.
- I restarted the laptop since I needed to test something in my Windows partition so that also triggered the Firmware update which ended correctly.
- Accessed Windows partition. Network there works fine, so I don't think is a hardware issue. Restarted laptop.
- Logged into Ubuntu and then realized that the Network was not working.
So, I can't tell if the network issue started because of the firmware update or logging into Windows. I tried multiple fixes but nothing seems to solve the issue.
What I find very confusing is that if I boot Ubuntu from a usb drive, the Network still doesn't work there (which was working fine).
The result of runinng $ sudo lshw -C network is:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: Wi-Fi 6 AX201
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=iwlwifi latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff irq:16 memory:604b11c000-604b11ffff
Which seems to mean that the drivers for my wifi card are installed.
Can anyone think what could be the issue? Thanks!
