Wifi not working fresh install

[FilipV]

Hello everyone, I have for the first time in my life installed Linux and I went with this distro. I am doing a dual boot with Win10. However, after I installed Linux, I do not see wifi toggle and I can only connect with my phone connected to my PC via USB. I have desktop PC with Wifi thingy in the USB port. It all works fine on Windows. I have already tried things suggested in other post such as: 1. Turning off Fast startup in windows 2. Disabling secure boot 3. I have even tried installing driver for my wifi (not sure how successful I was). Any help would be appreciated

[FilipV]

I am including additional info:

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inxi -Nn

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Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8168
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: 54:a0:50:87:dd:8c
  Device-2: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: N/A
  IF-ID-1: usb0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half
    mac: d6:2a:4c:40:57:30

Also I have just tried:

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mokutil --sb-state

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SecureBoot enabled
SecureBoot validation is disabled in shim

Interestingly, when I boot up the PC it said booting in insecure mode. I turned off secure mode via CMD in linux since in bios the option to disable it is greyd out (stuck on enabled)

Lastly,

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lsusb

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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Integrated Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8009 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 18a5:0408 Verbatim, Ltd Store 'n' Go
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 30fa:2051 INSTANT USB Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0bda:0184 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5182 Card Reader
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0c45:6366 Microdia Webcam Vitade AF
Bus 003 Device 059: ID 04e8:6864 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9070 (network tethering, USB debugging enabled)
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 1038:1702 SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Rival 100 Gaming Mouse
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0951:16a4 Kingston Technology HyperX 7.1 Audio
Bus 003 Device 009: ID 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[Pjotr]

I turned off secure mode via CMD in linux since in bios the option to disable it is greyd out (stuck on enabled)

When you set an administrator password in the BIOS, it'll probably be "ungreyed", so that you can disable it after all.

[FilipV]

Thanks for that but unfortunately it did not work. I set up admin password and next time I booted up and went into BIOS settings it asked for password, moreover, it said my access level is administrator. Nonetheless the option still remains grayed out.

[Pjotr]

Please provide the full output of:

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inxi -Fxxxpmrz

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iwconfig

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rfkill list all

[FilipV]

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inxi -Fxxxpmrz

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G10AJ v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0303
    date: 05/15/2014
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.56 GiB used: 4.1 GiB (26.3%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4790 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1981 high: 3333 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 999 2: 1035
    3: 2315 4: 3272 5: 1194 6: 1364 7: 2342 8: 3333 bogomips: 57470
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: nvidia v: 535.161.07 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c02 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-6:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 81 s-size: 602x343mm (23.7x13.5")
    s-diag: 693mm (27.3")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
    size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.161.07 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Kingston HyperX 7.1 Audio type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-10:7 chip-ID: 0951:16a4
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-101-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8168 v: 8.049.02-NAPI pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 3-1:2
    chip-ID: 0bda:c811 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: usb0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Samsung GT-I9070 (network tethering USB debugging enabled)
    type: USB driver: rndis_host v: kernel bus-ID: 3-5:10 chip-ID: 04e8:6864
    class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
    port: f020 bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 458.99 GiB (15.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdh type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100
    size: 931.51 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: AX10 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 912.58 GiB used: 32.13 GiB (3.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb4
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 95 MiB used: 31.1 MiB (32.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /media/filip/VERBATIM HD size: 931.28 GiB used: 426.82 GiB (45.8%)
    fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdh1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 55 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2285
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 307 Uptime: 35m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5
  Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13

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iwconfig

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lo        no wireless extensions.

enp3s0    no wireless extensions.

usb0      no wireless extensions.

rfkill list all does not return anything

[Pjotr]

Try this:

1. First establish temporary internet connection by other means (looks like you already have that, but just in case):
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... ernet.html

2. Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels
Install the latest kernel of the 6.5 series. Then reboot and test.

[FilipV]

Amazing, this worked and solved the issue. Thanks a lot Pjotr!