Yes, very probable. In the initial system image that was flashed on the Pocket Reforms, we didn’t have a hook in place that would update the reform-qcacld2 package automatically when there is a kernel package upgrade, and gcc and other compilers automatically pull in a kernel upgrade (via libc-dev). In the meantime we have a (somewhat hacky) hook that updates reform-qcacld2 in lockstep, but you need to upgrade this package manually once (or do apt update && apt upgrade once after initial setup to just upgrade everything.
Long story short, you need to upgrade the package reform-qcacld2 to get WiFi back. Some ways to do that:
- tether via USB to a phone
- tether via Bluetooth to a phone
- use the iX industrial Ethernet port if you have an adapter cable
- use a USB Ethernet dongle on one of the USB-C ports
- download the .deb from the repo Index of /reform-debian-repo/pool/main/r/reform-qcacld2/ on another computer and ship it to Pocket Reform via a MicroSD card or USB stick and install it using
sudo dpkg -i reform-qcacld2*.deb.