My battery died. Rebooted. Airplane mode comes up, which I'm never seen g before. Can't find how to deactivate it. No hardware switch or function key for it. Cantyuse wifi tl I get rid of it. Please help
No windows
MSI fx 603.
Zorin 16, new install.

How do you actually know you're in airplane mode?
If it's a hardware thing, you might go into your device's BIOS and see if you can switch it off there.
If it's a Zorin thing, check their support/wiki/documentation.

FWIW, my laptop does not have any sort of airplane mode, not on the BIOS level, not on the OS level.

As an Ubuntu derivative, it should be under Settings. If you don't see it check under wifi and there should be a button to turn it off.

Under settings in the wi-fi section in ubuntu

Is that the solution to your problem, or the answer to my question?

If the first: Please mark your thread SOLVED (see my signature). Others will benefit.

Not sure why the info in post 3 was repeated but in Ubuntu, clicking on Settings will show WiFi as the first item and clicking WiFi will show Airplane mode with a button to toggle off/on. If Airplane mode shows at the top of Settings, it means the WiFi is not configured or configured correctly and I would guess this is what the OP is seeing.

Sorry for any typos.

The issue with airplane mode solved itself. Very weird. I let my laptop recharge fully, several times. After that, it was gone. No wisdom on my part. Effort, yes. Searched bios and computer manufacturers for airplane mode, no mention of it anywhere. Then searched for it in Zorin settings, it had a toggle in the network area but would not deactivate, no matter what settings I attempted.

The issue happened when I let my computer die, accidentally. That is exactly how it got fixed, also. But it is and I thank you for the help.

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Nice.
Please mark your thread SOLVED (see my signature). Others will benefit.

FYI, I at least can't get to the page that your signature links to concerning "How to mark a thread Solved."

^ Thanks for the heads up, I changed all the links in my sig from linuxquestions.org to www.linuxquestions.org, apparently the security certificate applies only to the latter. Just one more weirdness in LQ & Cloudflake "co-operation".