Hello all,
I was not successful in my attempt to reformat /efi and reinstall the contents of the copy. I did a reinstall of Rocky 1.2 and used the existing partitions and reformatted all except /home. upon the completion of the reinstallation and reinstallation of KDE and the other programs I use I checked the wifi connectivity. It works flawlessly! I am assuming that the reinstallation plus update installed the new HP firmware. My problem is fixed