*putting this here too just in case anyone here knows

Ok I'm gonna ask this now before I come across this again in the future.

Does anyone know what on earth this is? The first time this happened I noticed the option to connect to any wifi is not available, the wifi button is completely gone.

I needed an ethernet cable to do anything that requires wifi.

My school's IT couldn't help me, and afterwards un-installing/re-installing the drive didn't help either. They recommended to replace one of my cards (sorry I don't remember which) with an older version, but I said I'll think about it.

Then it fixed itself later when turning it on again, after giving me 5 hours of anxiety.

I think the issue is something with the wifi card, because I started to tilt my laptop at a different angle after switching the side that I plug my mouse in the opposite slot.

I just want some clarity and knowledge cause that put me on edge for the last few months of the semester. I have zero knowledge on this stuff.

It's a MSI laptop running windows 11.


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in reply to @Vioyume's post:

"fixing itself randomly" and "changes when i tilt the laptop" sounds like the wifi card itself it loose or it has some sort of loose antenna inside the machine. likely will need to open it up and inspect/replace.