Wifi not appearing or detected in the network settings

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I’ve recently purchase a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with a Ryzen 5 5625U cpu and successfully installed Fedora36 workstation. The device specs show that “Wi-fi 6, 801.11ax 2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5.2, M.2 card” is in the device. Brand is unknown. Wi-Fi did work with the OS that it came with (Billy G’s - Win11). Now Wi-Fi is undetected. I get internet via a network dongle, hardwired in. What can I do to fix this Wi-Fi detection issue?

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Well, first of all, welcome to Fedora! Could you please give us more detailed info about your system specs by running inxi -Fzx in terminal and post the output as </> preformatted text here.

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Hi Daimar,
I have fixed my issue moments ago by following these instructions.

Realtek Semiconductor
Hi Ufuk,

You may have to add a driver. I had the a similar issue with my device using the exact Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor… Please go to this github and follow the instruction before cloning the repo. Pay attention to the clone options if your kernel version is below 5.18 or above 5.18.
The easy way to identify your kernel is to install neofetch then run it.
Here is the github link to install the driver:

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Here are my specs btw

System:
  Kernel: 5.18.16-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1 Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82SG v: IdeaPad 5 15ABA7
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76463WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: KACN11WW date: 02/23/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.5 Wh (81.6%) condition: 57.0/57.0 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.3 min: 11.6 model: LGC L19L3PF2 status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5625U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1399 high: 1438 min/max: 1600/4387 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 1397 2: 1396 3: 1397 4: 1395 5: 1397 6: 1438 7: 1395 8: 1397
    9: 1396 10: 1397 11: 1396 12: 1397 bogomips: 55095
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Barcelo vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2
    bus-ID: 03:00.0
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.5
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.16-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtl8852be v: N/A port: 2000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-3:2
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 13.38 GiB (2.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKCD512TFK size: 476.94 GiB
    temp: 35.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 476.64 GiB used: 13.37 GiB (2.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 6.4 MiB (2.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 476.64 GiB used: 13.37 GiB (2.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-4: /var/log size: 476.64 GiB used: 13.37 GiB (2.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-5: /var/tmp size: 476.64 GiB used: 13.37 GiB (2.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 13.5 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 309 Uptime: 45m Memory: 13.5 GiB used: 2.08 GiB (15.4%)
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 Packages: 1351 Shell: fish v: 3.5.1
  inxi: 3.3.20