Zorin 16 - Realtek wifi 8852AE not recognized

Installing Zorin OS
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stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ inxi -nx
Command 'inxi' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install inxi

stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ sudo apt install inxi
[sudo] password for stan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
.........

stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ inxi -nx
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 7c:8a:e1:8c:16:84
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0

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Realtek wifi 8852AE not recognized

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Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

Grumble... gripe....

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yep... wired internet works fine

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Yeah....
In terminal, can you try:
sudo apt install r8168-dkms

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stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ sudo apt install r8168-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
dctrl-tools dkms
Suggested packages:
debtags menu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dctrl-tools dkms r8168-dkms
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
..........

afterwards I tried this again:

stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ inxi -nx
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 7c:8a:e1:8c:16:84
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0

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I did this:
sudo apt upgrade
but the results from inxi -nx were unchanged

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Can you please reboot and test again?

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Just did just reboot again... same results from inxi -nx

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Ok but your wireless? No good?

Can you run

rfkill unblock all

rfkill list all

and post the results here?

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Should I try running LIVE versions of other recent distros to see what they do? If so, what terminal commands would you like me to record?

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k, one sec

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stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ rfkill unblock all
stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$

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Zorin is installed alongside windows, so I can provide details from that OS if you desire

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Secure boot is disabled, right? IF unsure run:

sudo apt-get install mokutil && mokutil --sb-state

Otherwise:

sudo apt-get install mokutil && mokutil

Wanting to punch me yet?

sudo apt-get install git build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

git clone GitHub - lwfinger/rtw88: A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the wireless-next repo.

cd rtw88

make

sudo make install

Remove the junk left over:

rm -v -R --interactive=never ~/rtw88

sudo reboot

...and test. Sorry about all this rebooting... at least your RAM is getting a cleaning.

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secure boot is enabled. I entered a password to setup zorin. Should disable it?

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stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ sudo apt-get install mokutil && mokutil --sb-state
[sudo] password for stan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mokutil is already the newest version (0.3.0+1538710437.fb6250f-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
SecureBoot enabled
stan@stan-Gaming3-15A

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Secure boot must be disabled for this to work...

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just return from reboot... okay, disabling secure boot... one sec

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stan@stan-Gaming3-15ACH6:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
enp2s0 no wireless extensions.

wlo1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"Reflection"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: 14:91:82:86:11:ED
Bit Rate=144.4 Mb/s Tx-Power=30 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-23 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:48 Missed beacon:0

\o/

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so it was something basic that I needed to do.
should I leave 'Secure Boot' off or can I turn it back on now that we have wifi in zorin ?