Ran SoftwareUpdater this afternoon, wifi broken

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Is there a way to retrieve a log of what packages got updated this afternoon?

I can still see my wireless networks, I can even connect without error.
Status: connected
Link Speed: 802.11ac
Sent: 23.98 KiB
Received 195.28 KiB

IPv4 set to DHCP
IPv6 set to Automatic

I haven’t changed any settings prior to, during, or after the update.

I’ve got a TP-Link USB WiFi Adapter for PC(TL-WN725N) on the way from Amazon to arrive tomorrow, but up until today, I’ve had zero issues with my idualwifi7260/0 (Lenovo Thinkcentre card)

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Just for more data: the card in my laptop identifies as the same as yours, and is working on the latest nightly hrev.

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I wonder if there’s a way to upgrade to nightly HREV manually.

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Switching from beta to nightly is covered here: Updating and downgrading your system | Haiku Project

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I know how to do it with a working internet connection. I mean somehow downloading packages to a USB stick and transferring to my Haiku machine - which is currently offline.

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I’m pretty sure that burning the nightly ISO to a USB stick and installing that on top of your current Haiku install will work but it will erase some system-wide settings and any non-OS packages you have installed. Their preferences should mostly stick around, though.

(It re-sets the /boot/system directory to stock nightly, but leaves /boot/home alone. Or at least, that was my experience; you maybe should let folks who’ve been using Haiku for more than a month weigh in before you try that without backing up … :slight_smile:

I did that to repair a Haiku that I’d damaged and other than having to re-install some packages and re-tweak my touchpad prefs it seemed to work OK.

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Good to know!!

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First thing to do is entering the Bootloader Options and choosing a working older state.
See if that fixes your wifi issue. If it does, please file a bug (see Reporting bugs).

Every install/deinstall creates an entry under /boot/system/packages/administrative.

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