I have recently installed KaOS Linux on a Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv6. Everything seems to be OK apart from the Wi-Fi connection which will not work. A wired connection to the hub/router is fine but when I look at the 'Networks' I see the message 'Wireless is deactivated' and there does not seem to be anything I can do to activate it. This is the first time I have use KaOS although I have been using Linux Mint for some years and have a desktop PC (also an HP) and several Dell laptops running versions of Mint, none of which have shown any similar problems. Any advice on how to solve this problem would be appreciated.
Chris

Here is the first part - the whole thing was too large to post here:

cat /etc/KaOS-release
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KAOS_20230212

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inxi -Fxz
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System:
  Kernel: 6.2.11-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.4
    Distro: KaOS 2023
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
    v: 0593110000204610000620100 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 17F9 v: 10.5A serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard
    v: F.1B date: 10/23/2012
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.0 Wh condition: N/A volts: N/A model: Hewlett-Packard 2600 status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-2330M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache:
    L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 800 min/max: 800/2200 cores: 1: 798 2: 797 3: 800 4: 798
    bogomips: 17560
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: AMD Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon
    v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 44.0 C
  Device-3: Suyin HP TrueVision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.2:4
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: X: loaded: modesetting,radeon unloaded: vesa dri: crocus,r600 gpu: i915,radeon
    resolution: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 23.0.2 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 6
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.2.11-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.69 status: active
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0d:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.36 GiB (2.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 465.53 GiB used: 13.36 GiB (2.9%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 43.5 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 164 Uptime: 9m Memory: 7.71 GiB used: 1.07 GiB (13.9%) Init: systemd
  target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 934 Client: Unknown Client: octopi
  inxi: 3.3.26

Not clear why you used an old ISO.....
But with that ISO (and an older kernel), did you have wifi in live mode?
No error messages for iwlwifi, so not clear yet what the issue is. What happens if you restart iwd?

sudo systemctl restart iwd

Post the output of that command, and best to also include the output of sudo systemctl status iwd.
If restarting iwd does not make any difference, post the output of sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi also.

20 days later

Many thanks for your help with this. I downloaded and installed the latest ISO but encountered exactly the same problem. I think I shall look elsewhere for an OS which is a pity as this one looked very interesting.
Chris