Wifi stopped working, ThinkPad X220

Hello!

A few days ago my Wifi magically stopped working. It has worked without any issues or any additional setup for more than half a year, since Solus was installed.

When I go in my wifi settings, it says something along the lines of "no wifi adapter found, make sure you have an adapter plugged in and turned on". Since I faced a similar issue on another laptop, I tried booting with the LTS kernel in case it was an issue caused by a newer kernel, to no success. I also tried manually enabling the interface with "ip link set wlp3s0 up" with no success. Updating packages and rebooting did not help either.

The only things that happened on that day are that I installed flash player npapi, as well as an attempt to install an application through WINE (though I did not install wine that day, the only package I installed was flash player). I do not see how either of these things may be related, but I thought I should mention them in case they are.

I'd appreciate your help and advice very much!

To add to the above information, the wifi adapter does show up in lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

I would really appreciate if someone would help me diagnose this issue at least so that I could go digging for a solution. Anyone with any networking knowledge would be very appreciated!

thosol Unbelievably, we just fixed it by just turning the wifi on in the settings.

I was helping my friend remotely with fixing this and I thought this was already tried, but it wasn't, or something else happened, anyway my friend just had to turn on the wifi
We both feel very stupid now and can't believe this happened.