Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty was released in 2014 Apr., which is relatively old to your system (probably released in mid-2015) so it's Wifi driver and the sound card driver might not be available.
I would recommend you to give 18.04 Bionic a try, you can just test it with a LiveUSB.
(Marking this bug as Incomplete base on Joseph's request in comment#2)
Hi Andrew,
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty was released in 2014 Apr., which is relatively old to your system (probably released in mid-2015) so it's Wifi driver and the sound card driver might not be available.
I would recommend you to give 18.04 Bionic a try, you can just test it with a LiveUSB.
(Marking this bug as Incomplete base on Joseph's request in comment#2)