Wifi icon is no longer available. Laptop prompting me to connect to the ethernet instead

[Microsoft Windows]

I know that my issue relates to my wifi drivers because it said that it was connected properly according to device manager. However it started when I reopened my laptops screen after closing it for a few mins. More specifically, the driver for "Qualcomm WCN685x W-Fi 6E Dual Band Simultaneous (DBS)WiFiCx Network Adapter", said Device statusCurrently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer.(Code 45)To fix this problem. reconnect this hardware device to thecomputer.(I don't think i need to physically reconnect anything since it's not like I dropped my laptop)

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