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Truthseeker

wifi adaptor stopped working after moving pc

i recently moved my pc from one location to another and afterwards my wifi adaptor no longer works. BT is fine (its a BT/Wifi integrated module. running ujust device-info gives me this information about my network adaptor: 
* PCI Network devices (lspci |  grep -i -E 'net' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
     0d:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8126 5GbE Controller [10ec:8126] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7e61]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41, IOMMU group 25
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Memory at f6a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Memory at f6a10000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
     
* PCI Network devices (lspci |  grep -i -E 'net' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
     0d:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8126 5GbE Controller [10ec:8126] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7e61]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41, IOMMU group 25
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Memory at f6a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Memory at f6a10000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
any further help in tracking down the reason the adaptor stopped working would be appreciated.
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π•Ύπ–™π–Šπ–‘π–‘π–†β€’10h ago
do you dual-boot with Windows? If so have you turned off Fast Boot
Truthseeker
TruthseekerOPβ€’10h ago
I do not dual boot windows no, and I already have fastboot turned off
clerian
clerianβ€’8h ago
Not sure if this helps you in troubleshooting at all, but I have an outlet in my own house that causes the wifi adapters in any computer plugged into it to not be detected by Windows because of presumably some electrical wiring issue (never tried it with Linux). Do you have an extension cord that would allow you to try another outlet and see if the problem persists? I'm pretty sure your problem is not the same as the one with my outlet, as the device actually shows up on the hardware list (in Windows the device actually just vanishes for my outlet), but it's worth a shot.

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