No wifi adapter found on z18

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Before installing when I tried from thumbdrive, wifi was working. But after installing it didnt work.

Installed on Acer Aspire 14

Secure bootloader disabled.

Tried all the followings. Still no wifi. Please help.

$ sudo apt update
All packages are up to date.

$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
version: 10
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:300-2ff memory:3013318000-301331bfff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 15
bus info: usb@4:1
logical name: enx00051b68141f
serial: 00:05:1b:68:14:1f
size: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=cdc_ncm driverversion=6.17.0-14-generic firmware=CDC NCM (NO ZLP) ip=192.168.12.50 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s

$ rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

$ nmcli radio wifi on

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Welcome to the Forum!

Did You checked the ''Additional Drivers'' Tab if there is a Driver offered? Does Your system run in Wayland or X11? You can check that with the Terminal Command echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

When it runs in Wayland, I would suggest to 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 the and choose the Option ''Zorin Desktop on Xorg''.

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Thank for the response. I moved onto Fedora. I will give your suggestion about xorg a try another time. Oh I did check under Additional Drivers. Nothing was recommended there.

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