Wifi adapters not connecting | Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 (15IIL05)

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Hi. I recently installed Fedora on my Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 (15IIL05) and everything was working fine for about an hour. The installation went smoothly, I installed a few applications and was watching a youtube video when the internet cut out. I did the usual troubleshooting things (other devices connecting to the wifi with no issue, restarted the computer, etc.)

After a great deal of researching I found the command “nmcli general”. I’ve never used markup before so I don’t know how this will format. But this is the output for nmcli general:

STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
disconnected uknown missing enabled missing enabled

Any help in solving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Please make a inxi -Fzx in terminal and post the output here as formatted text.

It looks like your hardware needs a separate wifi hardware driver to install it.

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Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF-ID-1: enp0s20f0u1 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
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I found the solution. I was missing the appropriate drivers for the card. I’m not sure why they disappeared. I installed the rtw88 driver from lwfinger using the steps in the linked site.