Hey everyone, I'm completely new to linux and I'm wanting to experiment with zorin 18. I made sure to install it with secure boot and fast boot off. It seems as if none of my drivers got installed except for my graphics card. I can't get ethernet, internet, bluetooth, etc. I can't even get internet through my phone plugged into usb. How do I enable/install drivers to make this all work? I did some reading and it seems like realtek hardware is difficult to work with. Here's some specs if this helps.
I made sure fast startup is off in both windows and my bios settings, and yes I actually do have USB tethering. Here are the outputs of those commands. It looks like the Nvidia driver is the only one that shows up in the additional drivers tab.
Here's what that output says, doesn't look good but I don't know what any of it means. The only usb device I had plugged in during this was a wireless mouse that is working.
I had problems with my Realtek ethernet card (which I think was the same as yours). I solved it by downloading driver r8168 (I think that was the number -it definitely ended in 68, with 69 being the newest) and also reverting to 6.8 kernel. However I did not have issues with my wifi card or USB ports and such that you have, only the ethernet card.
I beleive there may have been an additional issue with drivers being present but not binding correctly.
Does any of this prompt additional ideas from anyone? The original poster seems to have been left hanging for a while.
I decided to start from fresh and reinstall, but I installed the version without nvidia drivers and no internet connection to download updates as it went. It installed flawlessly this time, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver package didn't play nice with my machine. Weird but I'm glad it's resolved.
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