Wifi intermittent

Hi all,

I've recently installed Zorin 15 on an old Vista laptop and am very very impressed. The only issue is that sometimes when booting up the wifi doesn't connect.

I have run the following commands in the terminal (after reading a similar post) and have pasted the results below. I'd be really grateful if anyone can advise me on how to resolve it. I assume I need to find the right driver and install it but am not sure how.

lspci -nn | grep 0280

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]


sudo lshw -c network

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: WiFi Link 5100
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 00
serial: 00:22:fa:67:ab:42
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.0.0-32-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 ip=192.168.0.45 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:27 memory:f6000000-f6001fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: enp6s0
version: 10
serial: 00:13:77:e3:cd:da
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.30 duplex=full latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:24 memory:fa000000-fa003fff ioport:5000(size=256) memory:fa020000-fa03ffff


sudo rfkill list all

0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: samsung-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no


Thank you

No guarantees with this, but Aravisian posted elsewhere that turning off IPv6 (ignore), sometimes can resolve the issue. Please try and then post back.

I have my wireless PCI card not show up at all as a device on some first boots but then on reboot it always turns up. However, the same issue occurs on Win 7 as well, so I surrendered.

In that case it might be worth looking here:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wi ... g-gnulinux