Comment 2 for bug 444181

Also hit by this bug, though I didn't confirm the CLI stuff the OP reported.

Driver is iwl9345, loads fine upon boot. Clicking on the applet seems to be ok, though after the upgrade it no longer auto-connects to the home (wpa personal) network that I connect to. I click on the applet and can see the various available networks, and clicking on y usual one seems to crash the applet (it becomes unresponsive, other parts of hte system and panel are fine). Network connection is never established.

/e/n/i just contains the lines :

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback