I have not found anywhere in the bios that says the wifi device is disabled.
I have installed the firmware-realtek package (firmware-realtek/stable,stable,now 20210315-3 all [installed], Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters). I have also installed firmware-misc-nonfree (firmware-misc-nonfree/stable,stable,now 20210315-3 all [installed]).
There are no errors or warnings in dmesg about the wifi. Following is the pertinent output from lspci -vv and iwconfig
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0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device a85a
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 88e2
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
IOMMU group: 12
Region 0: I/O ports at 3000 [disabled] [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at 54000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M]
sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
enx00e04c0c0736 no wireless extensions.
I am not an expert in debian so I am at a loss as to what to do next.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Ole Jensen.