Update breaks Internet Connectivity

[laurenz0071]

Not sure where to post this but it is important.
Mac Mini M1 Asahi Fedora Remix KDE Plasma. Running the Installer works, setting up the new system works. Fedora boots and Internet Connectivity works. Then after Update: 5,4Gb System Updates and a reboot, neither Wifi Connection nor Ethernet Network Cable work. So trouble shooting is extremely complicated since I don't know which Package is the reason for this to happen. Clean, fresh install from Sonoma 14.6 (no beta).

[jannau]

this is a known issue caused by wpa_supplicant update to wpa_supplicant (1:2.11-1.fc40). Ethernet should work if you can disable wlan fast enough (in doubt and module.blacklist=brcmfmac to the kernel command line, Grub is accessible by pressing esc immediately after "Booting from nvme..." is displayed).
The new wpa_supplicant version has unfortunately wlan authentication on Broadcom Wlan chips as used in Apple silicon devices. In addition it triggers a kernel oops when the authentication timeouts. The second issue breaks ethernet.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302577 for the Fedora bug

[laurenz0071]

Thanks for the info. So I guess with the next update it should be working again. However such changes should not reach stable without proper testing. But maybe I miss something.

[danacr]

I fixed it by replacing wpa supplicant with iwd and then everything started working again https://nullr0ute.com/2023/01/using-iwd-for-wifi-in-fedora/

[laurenz0071]

I waited for the fixed package and loaded it via USB Tethering of a Smartphone and then everything worked again.