No wifi adapter found latest zorin education edition

Just installed Zorin education on my Asus Vivobook and it says no wifi adapter found. I ran sudo lshw -C network and got this
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: MEDIATEK Corp.
vendor: MEDIATEK Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff memory:6000000000-60000fffff memory:84000000-84007fff

not sure what to do, ethernet does not work and usb tether with my phone also didnt work whenver i use thhese and try to load a tab in brave it doesnt load

Mediatek are known not to work well with GNU/Linux without complicated methods to get them working. You would save yourself a lot of grief by purchasing a wifi-dongle in the long run.

Are secure boot and fast boot in your BIOS disabled (or have you created a MoK for use Linux with secure boot enabled)?

If you have a Dualboot with Windows, is fast startup disabled in the energy settings of Windows?

Did you take a look at Software & Updates > Additional drivers
if there is offered a WLAN driver?
But therefore you need Internet access.

Would you please post the terminal output of

rfkill list

to see if the WLAN is blocked?

When you try to connect your phone for USB tethering make sure that USB tethering is enabled on your phone and a cable for data transfer is used and not a cable which allows just charging.

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Secure boot and fast boot are both disabled in my BIOS
I'm not dual booting windows just striaght zorin
In the additional drivers theres nothing listed there ive checked multiple times
And with the rfkill list nothing is soft or hard blocked

Which Asus Vivobook model do you have? Is it a very new one? Then installing a later kernel may help. You can use the mainline installer tool or liquorix kernel.

Its an Asus Vivobook 15

Okay, that's only the size of the notebook. Do you see a model number or do you know the specs (processor, graphics...)?

Model Number is X1504VA with the Intel i3 13th gen

Can you please post the output of this command to find out what WLAN card you have:

lspci -nn | grep -i network

If it is Mediatek 7902, this WLAN card is not supported in Linux.

0000:02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:7902]

Unfortunately it is the Mediatek 7902. So you need a WIFI dongle to have internet access. There is no driver for this WLAN card in Linux yet.

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