No wireless on my Compaq EVO running Zorin 9 lite

I am new to the Linux world and decided to give some new life to my Win 2000 Compaq laptop by installing Zorin 9 lite. It is installed and working properly except for the wireless connection (Works on ethernet cable fine). System is Compaq EVO N410c and has a soft key (FN-F2) that was used under windows to turn on/off the wireless radio.
Here is some info i was able to get from the system:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 09
serial: 00:d0:59:c6:5a:58
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.107 latency=66 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:5 memory:40200000-40200fff ioport:2000(size=64) memory:40000000-4001ffff

Would really appreciate any advice someone can give me on how to proceed. Thanks.

Please post the results of the following commands:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
lsmod
sudo rfkill list all

Ok, thank you for the quick response. See below results. (I have not been able to get RFKILL to report anything). I have verified (I think) that the drivers are ok. Driver reports no wireless radio present, which used to mean the FN-F2 key needed to be pressed to turn on radio. That key sequence does not seem to work now. There is no setting for wireless in BIOS either. I can use a USP wireless adapter (UB-Link) without any issues.
PS: I am leaving for xmas this AM and will not be near this PC until Jan 2.



edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -ia2 net
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device [0e11:00b4]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 [8086:1229] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 P Mobile Combo Adapter [8086:2201]
Kernel driver in use: e100
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
zram 18032 1
cfg80211 409394 0
snd_intel8x0 33110 1
snd_ac97_codec 105709 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 85501 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 25135 1 snd_seq_midi
rfcomm 53664 0
bnep 18895 2
bluetooth 342208 10 bnep,rfcomm
snd_seq 55383 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
r8712u 158706 0
joydev 17101 0
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 51828 0
binfmt_misc 13140 1
snd_timer 28584 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
dm_multipath 22402 0
serio_raw 13230 0
yenta_socket 40201 0
snd 60939 10 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
scsi_dh 14458 1 dm_multipath
pcmcia_rsrc 18319 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 22328 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
soundcore 12600 1 snd
shpchp 32128 0
lpc_ich 16864 0
irda 107386 0
crc_ccitt 12627 1 irda
mac_hid 13037 0
parport_pc 31981 1
ppdev 17391 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40836 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror 21756 0
dm_region_hash 20121 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18072 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
hid_generic 12492 0
usbhid 47070 0
hid 87604 2 hid_generic,usbhid
radeon 1425007 2
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 radeon
ttm 85079 1 radeon
e100 35945 0
drm_kms_helper 48868 1 radeon
psmouse 95439 0
mii 13654 1 e100
drm 244037 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
pata_acpi 12886 0
floppy 55416 0
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo rfkill list all
[sudo] password for edbianc:
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo rfkill list all
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$

Try this. Open terminal and run one by one the following 6 commands.

Code:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
gunzip rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU
sudo mv rtl8192sfw.bin /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/
sudo depmod -a
sudo service network-manager restart

Does your wireless work now?
If not reboot, and run again:

Code:

sudo service network-manager restart

Thanks. In airport will try when I get back next week. Happy Holidays !

I tried your suggestions, the first set of commands except for the depmod -a were not recognized or location/file not available. The manager restart runs (process 1667) but does not show any service.

Did you have the ethernet cable plugged in so as to have internet connection while running the above commands?

Ah, no I did not. I will try again with that. Sorry.

Another question - I have executed the command apt-get install root-system-bin, thinking I need root permission. Do I need this? It is still running on install..taking up a lot of disk space ...should I stop it?

Still no result (see below) will try and reboot now.
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/ ... sfw.bin.gz
--2016-01-02 12:53:22-- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/ ... sfw.bin.gz
Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)... 91.189.89.229, 91.189.89.228
Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net (launchpadlibrarian.net)|91.189.89.229|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31817 (31K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘rtl8192sfw.bin.gz’

100%[======================================>] 31,817 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2016-01-02 12:53:22 (245 KB/s) - ‘rtl8192sfw.bin.gz’ saved [31817/31817]

edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ gunzip rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/
[sudo] password for edbianc:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/’: File exists
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo mv rtl8192sfw.bin /lib/firware/RTL8192SU/
mv: cannot move ‘rtl8192sfw.bin’ to ‘/lib/firware/RTL8192SU/’: No such file or directory
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo depmod -a
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo service netwrok-manager restart
netwrok-manager: unrecognized service
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo service network-manager restart
network-manager stop/waiting
network-manager start/running, process 2450
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$

Reboot and restarting service did not work either.

Go to your home folder and find the downloaded file ending in bin.gz
Righ click it and select extract here
Then run again the three last commands.

Madvinegar, thank you for hanging in with me. I did your suggestion but to no avail. I am thinking the keyboard needs to have the function keys enabled as the fn+f2 key turns on the radio card in the previous win system.

After extracting here is what I ran:
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo mv rtl8192sfw.bin /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo depmod -a
edbianc@edbianc-Evo-N410c:~$ sudo service network-manager restart
network-manager stop/waiting
network-manager start/running, process 8927

Does anyone know if there are more wireless card drivers, wireless capabilities or more keyboard types on the full version of Z9 vs the lite version ?

edbianc wrote:Does anyone know if there are more wireless card drivers, wireless capabilities or more keyboard types on the full version of Z9 vs the lite version ?

Hi, I have just done a quick search but to no avail. I have read that GNU/Linux sometimes loses the 'Fn' combination functionality depending on models and workarounds. Just do a quick search for 'Fn' or 'compaq' in the Package Manager.

I found this in a search which is a detailed potential problem solve for my wireless card. However, it is not clear to me what version of the solution would work for Z-9.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... CompaqW200