Wireless and audio wont work on my fresh installation of Zorin.
Hi, I've recently trying to install Linux onto my fairly new, and very cheap(really low specs) laptop. I've tried Lubuntu, Ubuntu and now Zorin Lite which is my favorite and the one I plan to use.
The problem however is that all of the above OS fail to detect my audio while both Ubuntu and Zorin fail to detect my wireless firmware. It runs on Lubuntu fine. The wireless is my main concern at the moment. I know my PC uses a realtek wlan adapter so I went to their site on another computer and downloaded all 4 of their wlan/bluetooth drivers and tried each of them one by one on the 'Windows Wireless Drivers' thing. They all come up as 'Hardware Present: No'. I also tried various random commands I found on the internet for these things but none of them work. I mean except for the ones that download stuff from the internet since the laptop doesn't have a ehternet port. The following is the result from running 'sudo lshw -c network': *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 84:20:96:d0:a1:o6 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt18723bs mutlicast=yes wirelesss=unassociated Also I don't know if this is useful but the following pops up before startup every time: https://imgur.com/a/eGHpY6G https://imgur.com/a/eGHpY6G Thanks. |
Ok.
My take on this. Zorin_Lite leaves out firmware packages in their kernel version supplied in the lite version of this distro. At least that is my take away on your imagur picture/screeny link error message. Code:
dmesg | grep firmware I wonder if Zorin Lite includes this command info also. If it does. It will help others here help troubleshoot as well. Code:
inxi -Fxrz Though I don't run Zorin or know much about it than that is is geared towards Windows refugees and is Ubuntu based. |
Code:
$ rfkill list |
Quote:
The response I got for dmesg | grep firmware: Code:
[ 8.951048] rtl8723bs mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin failed with error -2 Code:
System: Host: SMTB4002 Kernel: 4.15.0-30-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0) |
I fixed it.
I had ended up double posing this question on 'linux - newbie' by mistake since this one did not appear at first (I thought it didn't go through).
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...71#post5904671 Business kid was helping me over there and I managed to figure it out. Thank you for your help up to now rokytnji. I appreciate it :) |
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