Fedora 44 on ThinkPad cannot see 5 GHz Wi-Fi
A new Fedora 44 install on a ThinkPad cannot see any 5 GHz Wi-Fi network, though 2.4 GHz works.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 October 2026 · last reported 12 October 2026
What's going wrong
Some people who installed Fedora 44 on a Lenovo ThinkPad find that their home 5 GHz Wi-Fi network never appears in the list of available networks, while the 2.4 GHz network connects without trouble.
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