I have an ASUS ROG Strix laptop running Fedora 41, KDE spin. It was working OK, though there were some screen issues. So, I installed akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion. All the screen issues cleared up, but I lost wireless networking. There's no wireless device, it seems. The networking widget just says no network connections available. I tried pluggin in a Realtek usb wireless adapter, but it wouldn't work either. In /var/log/messages, the USB adapter is recognized as a Realtek device, but that's about it. I grepped /var/log/messages for NetworkManager, and I find that it says it loaded with "success."
Is this a known issue with a simple solution, or do I have to reinstall and stick with the nouveau drivers? As an aside, I have blacklisted the nouveau driver.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
billo
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM Bill Oliver via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I have an ASUS ROG Strix laptop running Fedora 41, KDE spin. It was working OK, though there were some screen issues. So, I installed akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion. All the screen issues cleared up, but I lost wireless networking. There's no wireless device, it seems. The networking widget just says no network connections available. I tried pluggin in a Realtek usb wireless adapter, but it wouldn't work either. In /var/log/messages, the USB adapter is recognized as a Realtek device, but that's about it. I grepped /var/log/messages for NetworkManager, and I find that it says it loaded with "success."
Is this a known issue with a simple solution, or do I have to reinstall and stick with the nouveau drivers? As an aside, I have blacklisted the nouveau driver.
You have omitted details that might allow us to understand the issue:
* what specific "screen issues" did you have with nouveau? * which Fedora version are you using? * which Nvidia version did you install? * is your system fully updated (including vendor firmware)? * hardware details ("inxi -fzxx" or a link to the same model at the LHDB https://linux-hardware.org.
The LHDB may show you if others have conflicts between Nvidia and wifi.
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