[CLOSED] Never connected when first start up computer

Hi I'm running Zorin OS core 9 on an Asus P5K with an ethernet connection to the router.
The problem is that when I start up the computer, or when it's been in suspend mode, it is never connected to the internet. Firefox just tells me it's offline.
If I reboot everythings fine again and the homepage loads automatically.
If I switch off for a couple of hours when I start up it's offline again.
So every time I want to do some work I have to start up the machine twice!
Maybe I should upgrade to Zorin 12 but one of the main reasons I went for Zorin in the first place was that I wanted to avoid having to relearn stuff too often since I get pretty limited time on the machine.
This is also the reason I'm pretty rubbish with computers so please forgive me if I require a bit of handholding!
Hopefully it's a common problem with a simple solution...
Anyway any help at all would be much appreciated.

Is this the spec of the motherboard?

https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-p5k- ... ies/specs/

Hi Swarfendor437,
thanks for your question
I think the answer is no: the system profiler tells me it's an Asus P5K-VM

have you checked here yet for bios update/firmware?

Code:

https://www.asus.com/ae-en/Motherboards/P5KVM/HelpDesk_Download/

Hi zorinantwerp,
I didn't even know updating any of that was possible!
I've now had a general look at the Asus website stuff (starting at P5K-VM as you suggested) including the faq where I found some informative pages and I'm now a little better educated in this regard, so thank you for that just for starters.
I take it that you are suggesting the problem might be that I need a bios update? (which makes me a little nervous that I might get it wrong!).
I've got windows 7 on a partition and I just tried booting that to see if it has the same problem and it does exactly the same thing so I assume this means the problem is definitely in the bios/firmware?
Cheers

Hi, a lot of issues raised in the past have been down to BIOS/Firmware update - always worth looking as the starting point before installing any new OS. Asus are good at giving you the procedures for a BIOS update. Depending on age of machine this will vary. On modern motherboards for example the BIOS interface will look for a downloaded update on a flash (memory stick/thumb) drive to update from. On older machines you would have to download to floppy/CD/ and boot off of that. In the past there have been some problems with ASUS having a utility that ran in Winodows and borked the machine so if there is any suggestion of that, DO NOT do it! (Speaking from personal experience!)

Thanks both, I'm going to do the bios thing next (when I've got all my soldiers lined up) but might not be for a while, so I'm marking this thread a ssolved.
Many thanks again
justin

The issue has not been solved so correctly marked as [CLOSED].

Ah yes ok. Tried to change it back before I realised you'd done it (very quickly for such a late hour!) rather than me making a mistake!
'Night then.