Here is some basic info
I have TOSHIBA Tecra laptop(super old). I am running zorin OS16 lite. In my BIOS there was no setting for WLAN. I found LAN & yes it was enabled.
here is some basic info
inxi -N
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi
sudo rfkill list
0: Toshiba Bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: Toshiba WWAN: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
lshw -c network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: enp0s25
version: 06
serial: e8:9d:87:7e:39:1d
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=5.15.0-94-generic firmware=0.12-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:24 memory:d4600000-d461ffff memory:d4625000-d4625fff ioport:3020(size=32)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 35
serial: 58:94:6b:95:52:c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.15.0-94-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 6000-4.uc latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:28 memory:d4400000-d4401fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@2:1.2
logical name: usb0
serial: 9a:1b:cd:e6:22:64
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=5.15.0-94-generic duplex=half firmware=RNDIS device ip=192.168.50.119 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.