Airplane mode, zero wifi?

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Working with a Windows 11 OS Framework Laptop 16 here and I’m a bit frustrated. I was using it all day today for some light gameplay but noticed Discord wasn’t opening. Figured a small restart later wouldn’t hurt anything, and after restarting there is simply no wifi whatsoever. It’s permanently on airplane mode as if I wasn’t just using wifi minutes ago for browsing. Tried restarting twice and then turning it off for about ten minutes. I haven’t opened up the internal parts since I put the computer together (Feb of this year) so I doubt anything is suddenly missing from the internals. The weird thing is that in the system settings, airplane mode is greyed out and set to OFF.

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Help me be less insane because I got nothing.

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That’s a bummer. Things to try:

  • cold boot - turn it off and unplug it for several minutes - it’s not clear if you did that but it’s easy enough to try
  • boot from a live usb like fedora to see if wifi shows up there. If it does then try re-installing the drivers for the wifi card in windows
  • reset the bios to default
  • reset the mainboard
  • open up the machine and re-seat the wifi card
  • replace the wifi card

Best of luck, hopefully it’s something simple, not a hardware failure.

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Thanks! I did end up finding a solution. Just in case anyone else has the same issue I wrote it down!

  1. windows key + x
  2. open device manager and click network adapters
  3. right click and hit update driver software
  4. choose search automatically
  5. restart computer
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