Hello there! Çizgi here. A fellow gamer that wanted to move to Zorin OS. I have been desperately attempting to switch but always had this almost unsolvable problem in ANY distro. I have my wifi module working and wifi interface looking normal. But when I connect and try to do anything that needs internet it doesn't work. I am connected yet nothing works.
I tried so many things although I don't remember most of them. I am determined to solve this than to go back to windows. Most of the things I tried was suggested by Claude AI because I couldn't find any useful solutions on the forums. (Or maybe i missed the useful ones by accident and pure bad luck)
I believe we can at least find out what's the cause of all this.
My wifi chip is Intel Tiger Lake ax201. My laptop's model is Asus TUF F15 fx506hc. My router is ZTE. My ISP is Vodafone and they sell me static ip adress for some reason. So I guess I'm under CGNAT or something. Maybe this is why but i don't want to buy anything before being sure of the source of this issue.
Ask me anything that would help you to diagnose something. Thank you for reading!
Welcome to the Forum!
Could You post the Output of the Terminal Commands rfkill list and sudo lshw -C network please?
Another Thing: Does Your System run in Wayland or X11? You can check that with the Command echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
When it should run in Wayland, You could try it with switching to X11/Xorg. to do that, go to the Login Screen. Click there on Your Profile so that the Password Field appears. When it is appeared, You should see a Gear Icon in the bottom right Corner. Click on it and choose the Option ''Zorin Desktop on Xorg'' and then log in.
cheeze@cheeze-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-F15-FX506HC-FX506HC:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
cheeze@cheeze-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-F15-FX506HC-FX506HC:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] cheeze için parola:
*-network
açıklama: Kablosuz arayüz
ürün: Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi
üretici: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
mantıksal ad: wlo1
sürüm: 11
serial: c4:03:a8:0a:21:a7
genişlik: 64 bits
saat: 33MHz
kapasiteler: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list eternet physical wireless
yapılandırma: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=6.17.0-20-generic firmware=77.b405f9d4.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.u ip=192.168.1.119 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
kaynaklar: iomemory:610-60f irq:19 bellek:612d18c000-612d18ffff
*-network
açıklama: Eternet interface
ürün: RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
üretici: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:2e:00.0
mantıksal ad: enp46s0
sürüm: 15
serial: a0:36:bc:6e:99:2b
kapasite: 1Gbit/s
genişlik: 64 bits
saat: 33MHz
kapasiteler: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list eternet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
yapılandırma: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.17.0-20-generic firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
kaynaklar: irq:18 ioport:3000(boyut=256) bellek:84204000-84204fff bellek:84200000-84203fff
*-network
açıklama: Eternet interface
physical id: 10
bus info: usb@3:4
mantıksal ad: enx06c75612055e
serial: 06:c7:56:12:05:5e
kapasiteler: eternet physical
yapılandırma: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=6.17.0-20-generic firmware=RNDIS device ip=172.25.100.152 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
It's usint X11
Do you have secure boot activated in your bios ? if yes disable it.
Zorin 17 or Zorin 18 ?
type in terminal and give us the result of uname -a
Secure boot and fast boot are both disabled.
Linux cheeze-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-F15-FX506HC-FX506HC 6.17.0-20-generic #20~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 19 01:28:37 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
You can try to update kernel to the last 6.18
To install the Mainline Installer:
add the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan/ppa
Update sources and install:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install mainline
Launch Mainline from App Menu or terminal, and select the kernel you wish to test.
I actually switched back to 17 today. It was 18 so I thought rolling back to 17 would fix.