Wi-Fi Realtek issue

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Hello,

I have an issue with my Wi-Fi on a HP Laptop.

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
        DeviceName: Realtek Wireless LAN + BT
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 88e1
        Kernel driver in use: rtw89_8852ae
        Kernel modules: rtw89_8852ae

The kernel module loaded successfully but unable to connect to an accesspoint.

ip a command shows the interface :

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 48:9e:bd:2d:22:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp2s0
    altname enx489ebd2d2216
    inet 192.168.21.146/24 brd 192.168.21.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eno1
       valid_lft 85197sec preferred_lft 85197sec
    inet6 fe80::9772:4141:349:139f/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 5c:fb:3a:34:37:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname wlp3s0
    altname wlx5cfb3a3437df

But unable to connect to a network :
nmcli --ask dev wifi connect my_wifi_ssid
Answer is :

Error: No Wi-Fi device found.

It works on Fedora Linux 42 on this PC.

dmesg :

[ 1368.257696] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware rtw89/rtw8852a_fw.bin
[ 1368.264148] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0: Firmware version 0.13.36.2 (52acc807), cmd version 0, type 1
[ 1368.264170] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0: Firmware version 0.13.36.2 (52acc807), cmd version 0, type 3
[ 1368.282138] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0: chip rfe_type is 1
[ 1368.284990] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0: rfkill hardware state changed to enable
[ 1368.289907] rtw89_8852ae 0000:03:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0

Any idea ?

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hi

It looks like the kernel driver is loaded and the interface exists (wlo1), but NetworkManager says “No Wi-Fi device found”.
On RHEL/Alma/Rocky-like systems this often happens when the Wi-Fi plugin package is missing (NetworkManager-wifi) and/or wpa_supplicant is not installed

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thanks, so easy !
now it works !

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