I am abroad, so I was relying heavily on Wi-Fi. My Librem 5 is on the stock configuration. No Crimson shenanigans.
Three days ago, the PureOS Store offered me to upgrade the system. I accept it and, after reboot, Wifi was gone. Nothing on dmesg, nothing on lspci. It is like the card not there at all.
I purchased a few months ago via a friend who lives in the US a Sparklan card and I should meet him in a few days to swap cards and test. Otherwise, any suggestions on what I could try?
Some people have complained recently about the PureOS store not being up to date, I wonder if it could have offered you the wrong update? If you have a backup stored in your phone you could try restoring to an earlier edition of the software and assuming it works and you get your wifi back you could type in āāsudo apt upgradeāā into the terminal.
Edit: It is really cool that you have a redpine, I donāt know anyone who doesnāt have the evergreen.
I am on the evergreen. Redpine is the wireless card, no? (I may be brainfarting due to jet lag)
Calling apt upgrade got me a few new packages but no new kernel. And wifi still gone. Super weird.
Any other thoughts? I donāt have too much time to dig into this on my own but I hope the other card will do. Awful timing. I only use wifi when I am out of the EU. =)
I could be brainfarting as well, I believe you should have 818 tools in your app list. You could try reinstalling the modem software if you canāt restore a backed up image and see if that works.
Edit: I just know all the old Librem 5s are named after trees. Aspen, birch, dogwood, chestnut, etc.
This may or may not help: open the terminal, run sudo dmesg --follow and start toggling the WiFi killswitch back and forth. Observe the console - if some redpine things start to show up there, stop toggling and wait for the WiFi device to show up.
Also, please provide the exact kernel version (uname -a). Specifying 6.6.0-1 tells us āa version from somewhere between 2023 and nowā
Personally, when I am away, I generally avoid applying updates (not specific to Librem 5 or even to Linux in general - that would be my universal advice from having been burned enough times).
@dos:
Linux pureos 6.6.0-1-librem5 #2 SMP PREEMPT 6.6.92pureos1~byz1 2025-06-02 06:49:09 UTC aarch64 GNU/Linux
Playing with the toggle switch brought me to this outcome (probably lockdown mode):
Modem switch on, toggling the wifi switch: Nothing happens. Absolutely nothing.
Modem switch off, toggling the wifi switch:
from off to on: irq: type mismatch, failed to map hwirq-7 for gpio@30220000!
from on to off: vcnl4000 1-0060: Failed to power down (-ENXIO)
Mic/camera toggle on, playing with the wifi: nothing happens.
So it seems to me that it is sending power to the card, because it goes into lockdown mode (I assume). But thereās nothing in the logs. Before the update, the wifi toggle had been on for a few days continuously.
I downgraded to .83 and nothing. This is just bizarre or an incredible coincidence with the card going belly up. =)
@irvinewade:
Iāll be abroad for 3 months, so, yea. =)
Thank you both. I will leave the phone off the whole night and wait for a miracle. =))
Leave the other switches alone, just toggle the WiFi one. On one of my devices I sometimes need to toggle it back and forth a dozen or two times for the Redpine card to register.
I also experience problems with the Redpine card not being detected. I could not yet figure out how exactly I can get it back. Iāve the impression that shutting down the phone for some time (maybe around 15 minutes) and then starting again brings it mostly back. Just an immediate reboot does often not work, using the hardware kill switches usually also does not work. I experience this with Crimson.
