WiFi connection is not available

I have an old laptop, a Sony VAIO Fit 14 (SVF14221CLW) which I wanted to install linux on, however the Wi-Fi network does not work for it, apart from that everything is going great, although I don't know if the integrated graphics it has is coming to serve I will be attentive to the comments and thanks in advance!

Hii @Baycord, welcome to the community.
Can you clarify if the wifi option is missing or you arent able to connect to any network?
And can you do sudo lshw -C network

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 *-network NO RECLAMADO    
       descripción: Network controller
       producto: BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
       fabricante: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
       id físico: 0
       información del bus: pci@0000:07:00.0
       versión: 01
       anchura: 64 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuración: latency=0
       recursos: memoria:c0700000-c0707fff
  *-network
       descripción: Ethernet interface
       producto: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       fabricante: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       id físico: 0
       información del bus: pci@0000:0e:00.0
       nombre lógico: enp14s0
       versión: 0c
       serie: 78:84:3c:3c:85:af
       capacidad: 1Gbit/s
       anchura: 64 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuración: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-72-generic firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       recursos: irq:18 ioport:2000(size=256) memoria:c0500000-c0500fff memoria:c0400000-c0403fff

If you are not dual booting with Windows, then You must disable Secure Boot in your BIOS Settings. Secure Boot blocks the Broadcom wifi driver.

If disabling secure boot does not resolve the issue, in terminal run?

sudo apt install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source

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