Linux Mint 21 – wifi disappeared?

Hello,

I’m using Mint 21 on an HP 17-y002na laptop. It’s been connected via ethernet cable for much of the time since I updated to 21, but has had wifi capability at times. Last week I noticed that the symbol showing ethernet connection was absent from my panel, but wired connection still works. Unplugged, I get no wifi options or connection

Since then I have tried to sort it to no avail, and I think I may be doing more harm than good, so I’m asking for help. Current situation is:

iwconfig returns

`lo no wireless extensions.`

`eno1 no wireless extensions.`

sudo lspci -nnkv shows (amongst other things not related to wifi)

`03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)`

`DeviceName: WLAN Broadcom 43142 bgn 1×1`
`Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [103c:804a]`
`Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31`
`Memory at f0b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]`
`Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3`
`Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>`
`Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+`
`Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00`
`Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting`
`Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel`
`Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-01-ff-ff-bb-68-14`
`Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>`
`Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge`
`Kernel modules: bcma, wl`

If I try to run ‘sudo modprobe -r bcma && sudo modprobe wl’ I get ‘modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘wl’: Invalid argument’ reported

The contents of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf

`# Warning: This file is autogenerated by bcmwl. All changes to this file will b>`

`blacklist b43`

`blacklist b43legacy`

`blacklist ssb`

`#blacklist bcm43xx`

`blacklist brcm80211`

`blacklist brcmfmac`

`blacklist brcmsmac`

`#blacklist bcma`

Wifi is (still) enabled in my BIOS/UEFI set up

I do want to be able to use it without having to be ethernet connected

Any information, advice or guidance appreciated. Thank you in advance,

Phil

Edit – Driver Manager shows I am using bcmwl-kernel-source version 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu10\~22.04.1