Built in drivers gone after trying to install WiFi drivers for Realtek USB WiFi?

Hey, I’ve recently installed Fedora and tried to install this driver for my Realtek USB WiFi dongle to work

After installing it, while the USB WiFi dongle worked, the adapter that my PC has installed on a PCIe port (Broadcom 4360) that was previously detected by Fedora right after the installation wasn’t recognized anymore at all
Disconnecting the USB WiFi dongle just made the WiFi options disappear completely

To fix this, I tried to run this driver’s uninstall script and then rebooting, but my built in WiFi still wasn’t detected
I also tried to do a reinstall of the kernel with this command - sudo dnf reinstall kernel\* which I found in a post here, but the built in WiFi surprisingly still wasn’t detected
I thought that at this point it would work because I assumed that reinstalling the kernel would restore all the original modules and drivers but I suppose that isn’t really the case :sweat_smile:

Does anyone have any idea what might have happened and if there’s any way to fix this without doing a clean install of Fedora again?
Thanks in advance for the help :slight_smile:

So I’m still not really sure how this happened, but following the guide in this post to reinstall the Broadcom WiFi drivers solved the issue! :slight_smile:

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