I bought a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 with Windows 11. I installed Zorin OS 17.3 but can't setup Wifi. It says "no wi-fi adapter found". I have looked all over to find a solution and nothing works. I turned off fast startup in Windows. Wifi is enabled in BIOS. What else can I do?
First identify the chipset, because Lenovo ships these models with different Wi-Fi cards. If you can tether a phone by USB or use Ethernet, run lspci -nnk | grep -A3 -i network and lsusb, then paste the Wi-Fi line here. If it is Realtek, the fix may be a DKMS driver; if it is Intel/Mediatek, it is often a kernel/firmware package issue. Also run rfkill list to make sure it is not soft/hard blocked.
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Also, if you can access internet somehow, check for additional drivers. Settings/system/software updates then the cogwheel icon if I remember correctly.
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If it is new hardware which has released last year or this year, you may need a later kernel than the 6.8 kernel of Zorin 17.
But let us see first what the terminal outputs are.
Can you please tell us the name of your ideapad slim 3 model?
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Like @Forpli said we need the full model name of your laptop.
You can also in Windows go to drivers settings and give us the wifi card model.
Anyway if we have all this you will need yo connect in ethernet or USB tethering with you smartphone to proceed when we will have the spec
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- Are Secure Boot and Fast Boot in BIOS disabled?
- Did You checked the ''Additional Drivers'' Tab if there is a Driver offered?
- Did You tried Zorin 18?