Fedora install on Acer Aspire 5 (AMD) doesn't do wifi

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That initial post was not the output of inxi -Nxxx but the followup shows it. The output of lspci shows this

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:b852]

Although the answer is about ubuntu, I found this

And it seems the solution is to install an updated driver for that adapter.
There is no indicated driver loaded for that adapter at present.

  1. sudo dnf install git
    make a temp directory under your home directory where the rest can be done.
  2. mkdir rtl
    then cd into that directory
  3. cd rtl
    now download the driver source
  4. git clone https://github.com/HRex39/rtl8852be.git
    make sure the kernel headers are installed for compiling
  5. sudo dnf install kernel-devel kernel-header
    now to compile it
  6. cd rtl8852be
  7. make
  8. sudo make install
    which makes the module available for use
  9. sudo modprobe 8852be

If there are any errors while doing these steps then stop and fix the error before continuing.

If all this completes properly then inxi -Nxxx should now show the new module driver for that adapter.

There may be a few additional steps to make sure the new module loads when you reboot but it first needs to be loaded and tested before we go further.