WiFi adapter suddenly stopped on HONOR Magicbook

[steinooo]

Hi all,

I'm stumped. All of a sudden my HONOR Magicbook 14 (win 11) WiFi adapter just disappeared from device manager. It was working at 11am this morning, and nothing Strange has happened to it, the only thing out of the ordinary I suppose is that I connected it to my USB-C hub which i don't do very often. However it was behaving fine whilst using it.

I've taken the laptop to bits and the WiFi adapter is firmly seated and there's noway it can have dislodged.

The Honor PC manager software diagnoses it as a driver error, but isn't able to fix it.

I've rebooted dozen times and installed the latest windows updates, and the HONOR driver website is currently down and their support not available.

Any thing I can try I'd be grateful to hear!

 

[steinooo]

Were there any Windows updates installed that might have caused the issue perhaps? Is it detected in the BIOS? Bit concerning device manager isn’t picking it up just..

It was updated a few weeks ago so nothing that ties in....

However get this.......i've just Walked upstairs, rebooted for the 20th time, conceeding defeat to find a usb WiFi adapter, and it just started working?!!!!!!

I am still troubled by this, there was literally no NIC device attached a few moments ago, now it's worked and connected to the network!??!

Any idea how I can dig into what's gone on? Can't see anything related in Application or System event logs

 

[steinooo]

I googled HONOR Magicbook 14 found people has same issue with wifi on both Windows and Linux.

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I already know the WiFi NIC model, it's a realtek 8822ce