Issues with Qualcomm Networking card

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Hello everyone, I am coming from the Ubuntu side (24.04.3 LTS) and decided that I wanted to give things a try here. I am having a major conundrum wherein lspci detects my networking card, but I am unable to utilize it.

A bit of a backstory this is a brand new laptop that originally came with a MediaTek 7927, since that network card is not supported on any Linux Distro and Linux Kernel, I decided to buy the following Networking card: https://embeddedworks.net/product/wlan889/

I have some console/terminal log output of what is happening:

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As you can see my network controller (WIFI is being detected). However, it does not appear in nmcli output.

This is the dmesg ouput:

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I am using the default Kernel that comes with Fedora 43 (6.17.10-300.fc43.x86_64). Any suggestions on how to fix this major issue? Thanks!

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Try this way:

sudo dnf install atheros-firmware
sudo unxz -k /usr/lib/firmware/ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/board-2.bin.xz
sudo ln -f -T /usr/lib/firmware/ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/board{-2,}.bin.xz
sudo ln -f -T /usr/lib/firmware/ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/board{-2,}.bin
sudo reboot

If the issue persists, check:

rpm -q atheros-firmware
lspci -n -n -k -s 03:00.0
sudo dmesg | grep -e ath12k