Adding a wifi driver to a state-of-the-art HP laptop. In this case its a Ryzen 7 8725U with a newer wifi-6 wifi card. There are no linux drivers in the distributions for this chipset, but you can grab the driver from repositories and compile them.
Here’s how I did it:
This has what I had actually typed, minus the resulting outputs it all gave me.
I dont remember exactly why I repeated a command. i got the wrong driver a couple of times.
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:kelebek333/kablosuz
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/kablosuz
# ok, that took two tries, I dont remember why
# now some modprobes to make sure I have the correct device
sudo apt install rtl8723de-dkms
# now some modprobes to make sure I have the correct device
# I tried a number of things, guided by suggestions from various websites
sudo modprobe -r rtl8723de
sudo modprobe rtl8723de
sudo modprobe -r RTL8852AU
sudo modprobe -r rtl8852au-dkms
sudo apt install rtl8852au-dkms
sudo modprobe -r rtl8852au-dkms
sudo modprobe -r rtl8852au
sudo modprobe rtl8852au
sudo modprobe -r rtl8852au
# still wan not confident I had the correct repo, added it again
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:kelebek333/kablosuz
# got rid of this driver because it was the wrong device and is a waste
sudo apt purge rtw89-dkms
# now update links to drivers now that I know what driver goes with what device due to reports from modprobe
# updating pulls in latest metadata from new repositories
sudo apt update
# ok, I will need git installed to do the clone command
sudo apt install git bc
# grab the source code for the rtl8852be device (which is the new wifi-6 chip with blutetooth on chip)
git clone https://github.com/HRex39/rtl8852be.git
# change directory to the new source code directory we just pulled in with git
cd rtl8852be
# build the source code
make
# and install it
sudo make install
# ok, is the 8852 chip now accessible via the newly installed driver?
sudo modprobe 8852be