Wifi adapter not being detected

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I am using zorin pro 18,wifi adapter all of a sudden is not being recognized its a dual boot with windows, nothing has been changed, fast boot is disabled.Also wifi adapter is being recognized by 2 earlier kernels.

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  • Is Secure Boot in BIOS disabled?
  • Is Fast Start-Up in Windows disabled?
  • What Kernel run at the Moment? You can check that with uname -r in the Terminal. When it is the 6.17 Kernel, try it with switching to the older 6.14 Kernel and check if it then works. To switch, choose on the GRUB Menu ''Advanced Options for Zorin'' and take there the Option with the 6.14 Kernel.
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secure boot is not disabled,
fast start up is disabled
6.14 kernel works 6.17 does not
running dual boot with windows pro

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I also checked to see if it was just my wifi adapter,but its not ,I tried hardwiring and it does not see that either.

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ted@ted-Alienware-m18-R2:~$ rfkill list
ted@ted-Alienware-m18-R2:~$ sudo rfkill unblock wifi
[sudo] password for ted:
ted@ted-Alienware-m18-R2:~$ sudo rfkill unblock wifi
ted@ted-Alienware-m18-R2:~$ sudo lshw -C network
-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:6d:00.0
version: 1a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:a4400000-a4403fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:6f:00.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a4200000-a420ffff memory:a4210000-a4213fff
ted@ted-Alienware-m18-R2:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all

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If you need kernel 6.17, then you can try this fix for iwlwifi driver:

Otherwise you can wait and stay with kernel 6.14 until the next updates will solve the problems with kernel 6.17.

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This is solved,booted into an earlier kernel and was able to finally run updates,updated to a newer linux firmware

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