linux mint 20.3 no wifi

[illidia]

mint doesn't see my wifi hardware on my hp laptop

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illidia@slowbook:~$ inxi -Fxzd
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 645 G1 
  v: A3009DD10303 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1992 v: KBC Version 05.34 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: L72 Ver. 01.46 date: 07/02/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.4 Wh condition: 46.8/46.8 Wh (100%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Unknown 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A4-4300M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 
  bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Piledriver rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 9981 
  Speed: 1368 MHz min/max: 1400/2500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1333 2: 1366 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity 2 [Radeon HD 7420G] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-58-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.3 Mesa 21.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-58-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n 
  driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 4000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF-ID-1: usb0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 23.19 GiB (19.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7PD128HCFV-000H1 size: 119.24 GiB 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 115.82 GiB used: 23.19 GiB (20.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 31 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 206 Uptime: 20h 13m Memory: 3.04 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (34.4%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38 

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illidia@slowbook:~$ rfkill list
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no

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illidia@slowbook:~$ uname -rsv
Linux 5.15.0-58-generic #64~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 16:42:31 UTC 2023

[sleeper12]

Try:

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sudo modprobe wl

If that does nothing, post what this shows:

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net

[Keith2021]

Might not help but I had the same problem the other day after installing the Mint ISO some how the wifi got turned off, on the laptop I had to push the button to turn it back on.
Another one I was using Ventoy to install the ISO and the WIFI would not work, I had to install the program using StartUp Disk Creator on the USB drive to get it to work.
Just two suggestions.