Fwdora 41 can't connect to wifi after restart

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Hello everybody,

I’m not sure how to call this strange topic.

I installed Fedora 41 on my dell xps 13 (2018) Notebook and everything seems to work as it should. After install I connect to my wifi, run dnf update, download packages etc. But after a reboot, I can’t connect to my wifi anymore. If I open the control panel and go to WLAN the network is marked to be active and connected, but in the icon bar at the top the wifi symbol has changed to a “?” and the machine seems not to be connected to the wifi, as I can’t load any webpage…
I can restart or shutdown as often as I like, but it won’t reconnect to the network. Deleting and reastablishing the connection does not change anything either - I stay with the “?”-Symbol.
So obviously something happens during the update-process.
On my second Notebook (Acer Travelmate Spin B3) everthing seems to be OK.
Does anybody know a cure?

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If I’m not wrong, the question mark implies that the system are actually connected to the wifi, but for some reason it can’t reach the Internet.

Could you provide the output of
ip a
and of
ip r

In addition, which wifi adapter do you have?
(lspci ; lsusb) | grep -i wifi

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