Hello!
I'm using Zorin Core 16.2 - I have this OS on several laptops all running smoothly. I'm a functioning linux user but essentially still a newbie.
I recently bought a secondhand HP Pavilion and installed the same OS but am having trouble with wifi and ethernet.
I have a TP Link mobile internet thing, and a Huawei 5G router, both tested and working.
My HP Pavilion desktop won't find either of them through wifi. When I plug in the ethernet cable to the Huawei, my Settings say "cable unplugged". However, when I connect to the TP Link via USB cable, it works, which is how I'm typing this now.
Here is the output of lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wlp5s0
version: 00
serial: d0:df:9a:96:8f:b6
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=5.15.0-46-generic firmware=0.40 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:19 memory:fe400000-fe40ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: enp6s0
version: 06
serial: e0:69:95:d1:42:d6
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-46-generic firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:16 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@2:1.4
logical name: usb0
serial: ba:12:46:73:60:5e
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=5.15.0-46-generic duplex=half firmware=RNDIS device ip=192.168.0.103 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
and
nmcli
usb0: connected to Wired connection 2
"TP-Link M7350"
ethernet (rndis_host), BA:12:46:73:60:5E, hw, mtu 1500
ip4 default
inet4 192.168.0.103/24
route4 0.0.0.0/0
route4 192.168.0.0/24
route4 169.254.0.0/16
inet6 fe80::946a:a849:8148:bcb6/64
route6 fe80::/64
wlp5s0: disconnected
"Ralink RT5390 1T/1R"
wifi (rt2800pci), D0:DF:9A:96:8F:B6, hw, mtu 1500
enp6s0: unavailable
"Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411"
ethernet (r8169), E0:69:95:D1:42:D6, hw, mtu 1500
and
ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether e0:69:95:d1:42:d6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp5s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether d0:df:9a:96:8f:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether ba:12:46:73:60:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.103/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute usb0
valid_lft 6523sec preferred_lft 6523sec
inet6 fe80::946a:a849:8148:bcb6/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Thank you so much for your help.