No Wifi on fresh installation

General system Newbie
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Hi All,
I have installed EOS Xfce alongside Win 11 on a new machine. I did it all cabled and just now realized that on EOS the Network menu shows no Wifi Networks (on Win the Wifi is working fine). In the ‘Advanced Network Configuration’ I have added the connection details (SSID, PW) but nothing happens.

rfkill list:

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

inxi -Faz

Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A

Could someone guide me in how to get the Wifi working?

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hi

is it like ? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1425459/lenovo-ideapad-5-pro-16arh7-wifi-doesnt-work-even-after-installing-newest-drive

souinds like the chip idea i found on google…

is it a realtek 8852be ?

try with yay , https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8852be-dkms-git

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Could you show the output of

hwinfo --wlan

Another potential driver is rtw89-dkms-git.

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Thank you so much both :+1:. I first installed the driver for realtek 8852be and after reboot Wifi is now up and running :star_struck:.

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yes searching for this will show you needed drivers

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Okay, would never have known :flushed:

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As it was not showing any device name and all output for it was generic the hardware IDs are mostly valid search terms :wink:

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