RTL8821CE wifi stopped working after 15-Feb-23 22.04 update and restart

My problem seems to be very similar to that detailed at Ubuntu 22.04: RTL8821CE-based wifi not working but the fix there (removing backport-iwlwifi-dkms) did not work for me (I apparently do not have backport-iwlwifi-dkms on my computer).

I had run into an issue with this wifi card long (more than a year, I think) ago, and had resolved it, but I seem to be dead in the water again.

I am currently accessing the internet with an old usb dongle, which is not very good (no 5G).

Any computer savvy-ness I ever had is probably 30 years out of date, so please forgive my cluelessness.

Any help appreciated.

Output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list :

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:c821]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [103c:831a]
    Kernel modules: rtw88_8821ce
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: SK hynix Gold P31 SSD [1c5c:174a]
    Subsystem: SK hynix Gold P31 SSD [1c5c:174a]
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Kernal version is 5.19.0-32-generic

Output of grep rtw88_8821ce /etc/modprobe.d/* :

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:blacklist rtw88_8821ce

I had the same issue as Joseph: after installing updates (in particular: the latest kernel 5.19....), wifi was gone.

Here is how I (apparently) solved it: I rebooted and chose the previous kernel version (5.15...), wifi was working again.

I removed rtl8821ce-dkms

sudo apt remove rtl8821ce-dkms

then rebooted into the latest kernel 5.19... wifi was working again.

after kernel update to 5.19 my wifi adapter rtl8821ce got disabled

I updated kernel to 6.1.12-060112-generic

installed latest version of driver from https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce

added to blacklist rtw88_8821ce (because with this driver wifi signal is weak)

Now my wifi works well