Getting "No Wifi Adapter Found" after installing ubuntu 20.04 in my Lenovo
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Getting "No Wifi Adapter Found" after installing ubuntu 20.04 in my Lenovo
I have checked in my windows boot if the wifi is working there and it works fine but when checking in my ubuntu there is no wifi I can only connect using ethernet cable or hotspot.
I tried sudo apt update then sudo apt upgrade but no changes occurred.
I even tried updating the software in the ubuntu system but still no changes occured.
And when I type lshw -C network in terminal it shows the below text
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
version: 1a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=iwlwifi latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:be100000-be103fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: bnep0
serial: 28:df:eb:f9:69:37
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=172.20.10.14 multicast=yes
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
When I type in lsmod | grep iwl it shows the below text
That's odd. I don't see any reference to a wireless adapter, unless I'm missing something (which is quite possible).
Have you tried checking out the link to the article. It tells how to use Ubuntu's "Additional Drivers" function, which has worked quite nicely for me in the past.
As an aside, when you post terminal output, please surround it by "code" tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the compose/edit post window. It makes terminal output easier to read.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 06cb:00f9 Synaptics, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 13d3:5271 IMC Networks Integrated RGB Camera
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 8087:0032 Intel Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Yes thats true I thought so too but the kernel version is correct too set to 5.11 when I checked using sudo dpkg --list | grep linux-image I got the following:
ii linux-image-5.11.0-27-generic 5.11.0-27.29~20.04.1 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-5.11.0-41-generic 5.11.0-41.45~20.04.1 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 5.11.0.41.45~20.04.19 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image
edit:didnt see the message that you're already at 5.11 before posting this, so maybe not solution, but still wouldn't hurt to try, intel drivers are almost always included in kernel in my experience...
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