I've lost WiFi on upgrading my Thinkpad T61 from Fedora-20/KDE to Fedora-21, using fedup. The WiFi card is Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 . I have what I assume is the correct driver - iwl5965 (and iwlegacy) loaded,
When I run "sudo ip link show" the following interfaces are listed: 1: lo 2: enp0s25: 3: wlp3s0: I take it the last means the WiFi card is seen?
But now I get [tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill I'm not sure what this signifies?
[tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo rfkill list gives 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no
But after [tim@rose network-scripts]$ sudo rfkill unblock all I can run [tim@rose tmp]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up without complaint.
Now ifconfig shows the interface, but without the local IP address given in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp3s0 Maybe NM no longer reads this file?
After [tim@rose tmp]$ sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 192.168.2.3 ifconfig shows this correct local address.
But I am unable to connect to any other machine, and the router does not log any attempted connectiion.
Any advice or elucidation gratefully received.