Noob help, no wifi Fedora 36 LXQT

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To verify that the module has been built.

[vek@newbox ~]$ ls /var/cache/akmods/wl/
6.30.223.271-42-for-5.19.10-200.fc36.x86_64.log
6.30.223.271-42-for-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64.log
6.30.223.271-42-for-5.19.12-200.fc36.x86_64.log
kmod-wl-5.19.10-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36.x86_64.rpm
kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36.x86_64.rpm
kmod-wl-5.19.12-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36.x86_64.rpm
[vek@newbox ~]$

To verfy if it is loaded

[vek@newbox ~]$ sudo modprobe wl
[vek@newbox ~]$ lsmod |grep wl
wl                   6471680  0
cfg80211             1056768  1 wl
[vek@newbox ~]$

If building the wl module failed, check to log file /var/cache/akmods/wl/.last.log.

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No wl module here, so the module is not loaded (which explains why wifi isn’t working). So we now need to figure out why the module isn’t loaded. See Villy’s suggestion to check if the kmod was built properly.

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Thank you very much again for your help!!!

The output of first command was only:

ls /var/cache/akmods/wl/
6.30.223.271-42-for-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64.log
kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36.x86_64.rpm

I tried to install the rpm using dnf, and a box came up saying there was a transaction error, but there was no info in the box itself.

So I can assume that means it wasn’t built. The log file was big, but the ending of it was:

022/09/28 07:04:10 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:10 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmodsbuild: group mock does not exist - using root
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2022/09/28 07:04:11 akmods: DNF detected
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                         Arch   Version              Repository    Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64 x86_64 6.30.223.271-42.fc36 @commandline 1.4 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 1.4 M
Installed size: 1.4 M
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36   1/1 
  Running scriptlet: kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36   1/1 
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64/kernel/sound/soc/soc-utils-test.ko.xz needs unknown symbol kunit_do_failed_assertion
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64/kernel/sound/soc/soc-utils-test.ko.xz needs unknown symbol __kunit_test_suites_exit
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64/kernel/sound/soc/soc-utils-test.ko.xz needs unknown symbol __kunit_test_suites_init
depmod: WARNING: /lib/modules/5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64/kernel/sound/soc/soc-utils-test.ko.xz needs unknown symbol kunit_binary_assert_format

  Verifying        : kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36   1/1 

Installed:
  kmod-wl-5.19.11-200.fc36.x86_64-6.30.223.271-42.fc36.x86_64                   

Complete!
2022/09/28 07:04:49 akmods: Successful.

Hope that means something, and I hope it will let me post all that! Thank you again!!

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The dnf command does not pop uo bozes, so this does not make sense,

You forgot to run

 sudo modprobe wl
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