WIfi adapter is missing suddenly

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so i have a win 11 && fedora 38 dual boot system and i dont know why i am suddenly my wifi adapter gone missing
I did some ground work

  dmseg output
 [    4.074965] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
 [    4.084291] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: WOW Firmware version 9.9.4, H2C version 15
 [    4.090478] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: Firmware version 9.9.15, H2C version 15
 [    4.113660] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to download firmware
 [    4.113767] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup chip efuse info
 [    4.113768] rtw_8822ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup chip information
 [    4.122202] rtw_8822ce: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

 [user@fedora ~]$ lsmod | grep rtw
rtw88_8822ce           12288  0
 rtw88_8822c           487424  1 rtw88_8822ce
 rtw88_pci              40960  1 rtw88_8822ce
 rtw88_core            249856  2 rtw88_pci,rtw88_8822c
 mac80211             1572864  2 rtw88_pci,rtw88_core
 cfg80211             1331200  2 rtw88_core,mac80211

[user@fedora ~]$ sudo lspci -v
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
	DeviceName: Realtek Wireless LAN + BT
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 85f7
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at 84000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [148] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-c8-22-01
	Capabilities: [158] Latency Tolerance Reporting
	Capabilities: [160] L1 PM Substates
	Kernel modules: rtw88_8822ce

I found that all other hardware have some tag Kernel driver in use…but i didnt found the same for Wireless Network adapter
So what should do???

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Welcome to Fedora @pavan

Restart your system and choose an older kernel to see if it works.

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A similar problem has been noted repeatedly with the realtek wifl.
This is one example from a search on this forum for the rtw88_8822ce.

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