Ideapad Flex 5 - No network devices available

Good day everyone.
My exact device name is Lenovo Ideapad 5-14ALC FHD R5-5.
And as said in in the title I can not use WiFi connections.
I searched for people with the same network card and followed the solutions they had no effect.
I enable the Arch Depositories. Installed the “rtl8821ce” driver. And the kernel headers for my kernel version. Im only confused by this moment, this is my first linux usage.

inxi -Fxxxz

Outputs:
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.2-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
  vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 82HU v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ALC05
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ALC05
  serial: <filter>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter>
  UEFI: LENOVO v: GJCN22WW date: 04/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 51.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 51.3/52.5 Wh (97.8%)
  volts: 13.1 min: 11.5 model: Celxpert L19C3PD6 type: Li-poly
  serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 44
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
  type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L2: 3 MiB
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  bogomips: 50321
  Speed: 1406 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
  1: 1406 2: 1470 3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1750 6: 1428 7: 1397 8: 1567 9: 1397
  10: 1397 11: 1396 12: 1397
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Acer Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3
  chip-ID: 5986:212a class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.1 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.2-2-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.0)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1
  chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
  vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.2-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  chip-ID: 10ec:8852 class-ID: 0280
  IF-ID-1: enp4s0f4u2 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: OnePlus (Shenzhen) OnePlus type: USB driver: rndis_host
  v: kernel bus-ID: 3-2:5 chip-ID: 2a70:f00e class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
  Device-2: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
  bus-ID: 3-4:4 chip-ID: 0bda:4852 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 9.44 GiB (2.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA512QFD size: 476.94 GiB
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0011P6LN
  temp: 37.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 468.09 GiB used: 9.44 GiB (2.0%) fs: ext4
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 43.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 299 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.06 GiB
  used: 1.47 GiB (9.8%) Init: systemd v: 249 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0
  Packages: pacman: 1094 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.08

Hello,

For this one you will need AUR (en) - rtw89-dkms-git
But first you have to install the linux515-headers
For that you might want to use USB tethering from your phone or something.

I guess you have gone trough this Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14alc05 - ArchWiki

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Yes I already installed the “linux515-headers”.
Only had had to install the driver you referred to, thanks for your help.

I used the command:

pamac build rtw89-dkms-git

After a reboot I could finally use my WiFi.
Thank you very much!

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