Wifi device can't be found after update

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I updated Fedora 34 two days ago and since then I don’t have internet access anymore on my laptop.
When I type “wifi” on the terminam no device can be found.

Wifi is working on my Windows partition btw so the device should be working fine.

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Please give us a bit more infos. inxi -Fzx in terminal would be a good start.
If not available you have to install inxi.

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Don’t know what happened. After several restarts and connecting my phone to my laptop to make another update it seems to work again…

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hey I am back and now I have the same problem. Similar to last time I used my Windows 10 partition before. Then I shutted my PC down and started Fedora after that again. Now I can’t find my Wifi device anymore and I am currently using my phone via USB tethering.

After using inxi -Fzx

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.13-200.fc34.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 2.35.2-6.fc34 Desktop: GNOME 40.4 
  Distro: Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: UX550VE v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX550VE v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: UX550VE.307 date: 04/19/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 47.2 Wh (99.4%) condition: 47.5/73.8 Wh (64.4%) 
  volts: 15.4 min: 15.4 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L2: 6 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 44798 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: nvidia v: 470.74 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-4:2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.8 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.13-200.fc34.x86_64 running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2-rebootstrapped running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF-ID-1: enp58s0u2 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb 
  v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-9:3 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends 
  Device-2: Google Nexus/Pixel Device (tether) type: USB driver: rndis_host 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 3-2:3 
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 43.94 GiB (9.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW512HMJP-00000 
  size: 476.94 GiB temp: 37.9 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 214.47 GiB used: 43.63 GiB (20.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 
  mapped: luks-24d56692-edfe-4ae7-8879-80821d8fda14 
  ID-2: /boot size: 975.9 MiB used: 242.9 MiB (24.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 259.8 MiB used: 73.2 MiB (28.2%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
  ID-4: /home size: 214.47 GiB used: 43.63 GiB (20.3%) fs: btrfs 
  dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: luks-24d56692-edfe-4ae7-8879-80821d8fda14 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2700 
Info:
  Processes: 430 Uptime: 4m Memory: 15.5 GiB used: 2.32 GiB (14.9%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.1 Packages: 30 
  note: see --pkg Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 inxi: 3.3.06

but entering wifi in my terminal just claims there is now device

wifi      = none (no device)
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Most probably your Wi-Fi driver is Rtl8821ce

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I got the solution on Reddit:

It’s Windows all over again. I disabled Fast Boot in my BIOS settings but didn’t know it needs to be disabled on Windows 10 as well:
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045548