Hello,
I bought the ASUS ExpertBook P5 P5405CSA and install clean Zorin OS Pro.
I cannot turn on wi-fi, secure boot is turned off, additional drivers show nothing.
I try tether the internet from my cell phone, that works pretty well, but I cannot find the drivers to make Wi-Fi working.
On Asus website it says Realtek, but in terminal after command lspci it says: Network controller: Intel Corporation Device a840 (rev 10).
Could you please help me to get my Wi-Fi working?
Thanks in advance.
As far as I could find out, your device uses the iwl wifi drivers that are included in the kernel.
Please disable fast boot in the BIOS and if you have a Dual boot with Windows, also the fast startup in Windows.
You could try to reinstall the linux firmware and look if that helps:
"sudo apt reinstall linux-firmware"
But as your computer is up-to-date hardware, it is possible that the drivers are not included in the kernel 6.8 that Zorin uses. I'd recommend to install a newer kernel, with cappelican mainline installer tool:
I read that in ubuntu 25.04 with kernel 6.14 the wlan works on this device.
If this kernel is not available in cappelican, you could also use other mainline tools e.g. tuxinvader.
You can take a look at this thread on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1i1simn/linux_on_p5405csa/?tl=de
Here is an overview what worked on kernel 6.11. There is a problem with Communication Controller. Presumably
this causes the WLAN problems:
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Could You post the Output of sudo lshw -C network here?