fedora has a reputation for being bleeding edge for red hat based distros and atomic is an extension of that bleeding edge but in a particular way; i’ve been considering it myself because their atomic releases use rpm-ostree and i’m hoping that it provides some easy answers for package management.
In your shoes: I would run
journalctl -f
and then try plugging in your adapter and watch the logs scroll as you do it to catch for errors, failures, timeouts, or even if it detected anything at all .