Hi. After several successful boots of my Zorin live boot usb drive, all of a sudden it is no longer able to find the wifi adapter. I know it is there because windows 10 and Cinnamon live boot fine it.
Is there any possibility this fixable or is it just better to redo the live boot usb? What other information would be helpful?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or questions.
Can you please clarify - are you using the LiveUSB with persistence?
This is not referring to a bare-metal install, correct?
Yes, it just a live boot with 8gb of persistence and it's a 16gb Sandisk Crusier usb drive. I assume by "bare-metal" you mean a full install.
I should note that on initial install and live boots all seemed ok but gradually on subsequent live boots the wifi signal started getting flaky, intermittently dropping in and out, now it's gone. It says it can't find the wifi adapter.
Any ideas? Should I just redo it on a different usb drive? Thanks.
If you can boot into live mode in Zorin open a terminal and enter:
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
then
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service
Thank you. I tried your suggestion a number of times, rebooting in between, but unfortunately it didn't help. The commands worked because they'd turn on and off the Wifi botton in that little panel (photo) at the lower right but it would never find the wifi adapter. I also noted that when it rebooted it always turned on the Airplane Mode button and turning it off didn't help.
Any other suggestions or questions would be appreciate.
Please open a terminal and enter:
sudo lshw -C network
and post back the results.
Ran that cmd by it's self and then again after running the stop/start cmds and the results (could not attach text file? ) were the same both times,
i.e., " *-network DISABLED "
zorin@zorin:~$ sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
zorin@zorin:~$ sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service
zorin@zorin:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 01
serial: a8:a7:95:3e:6b:74
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=6.8.0-52-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:125 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:91200000-91203fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: enp3s0
version: 07
serial: fc:3f:db:b0:a8:46
capacity: 100Mbit/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 autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.8.0-52-generic firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:19 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:91100000-91100fff memory:91000000-91003fff
zorin@zorin:~$
Thank you.
Out of curiosity I ran lshw cmd in mint/cinnamon, results are down below. It's all pretty much Greek to me but this section in the Zorin run caught my eye, I highlighted the differences between Zorin & Cinnamon:
"configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=6.8.0-52-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:125 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:91200000-91203fff"
I'm sure it must mean something! Any other thoughts appreciated, thanks again.
mint@mint:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 01
serial: a8:a7:95:3e:6b:74
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=6.8.0-51-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.16 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:125 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:91200000-91203fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: enp3s0
version: 07
serial: fc:3f:db:b0:a8:46
capacity: 100Mbit/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 autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.8.0-51-generic firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:19 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:91100000-91100fff memory:91000000-91003fff
mint@mint:~$
Linux Driver for RTL8188EE
The RTL8188EE driver is included in Linux kernels above version 4.17, so upgrading to the latest kernel can resolve connectivity issues.23 If your kernel version is less than 4.17, you can install the Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel to get the latest drivers.2
For older systems or specific issues, you might need to compile a different driver from a source like GitHub. One such source is available at https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.3
If the in-kernel driver does not work, you can manually load the driver using the command sudo modprobe rtl8188ee .45 Ensure to check if the driver adds an interface to ip l after loading.4
For detailed installation instructions, you can follow the steps provided in the Ubuntu forums, which include downloading the driver package, extracting it, and then compiling and installing it.3
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RTL8188EE network driver for Wifi6 - Networking - Spiceworks Community
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[SOLVED] Realtek RTL8188EE Laptop Wi-Fi Does not Work on Xbuntu 12.04
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[SOLVED] Find a driver for a Realtek rtl8188ee Wireless Card / Kernel & Hardware / Arch Linux Forums
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GitHub - ivanovborislav/
Wow swarfendor437, thanks for researching & putting all this together! I think as for now, after reading through some of this and seeing how involved it appears it could get and considering I'm actually traveling (just doing this in spare time) and that this is just live boot Zorin usb drive I may hold off until I get home with fewer distractions. It might be next week before I get back too this one so thanks again.
Got it! Check out this cmd, "umcli radio wifi on"! I had a little extra time so decided to search a bit more for a solution and found a post on the Zorin forum, [SOLVED] No WiFi adapter found after I upgraded to zorin 17, where some one used it and it worked for them. Apparently it will not work in all cases but did for me!
Just curious why and how it got turned off? Any thoughts on that would be appreciated. Thank you.
From memory of similar posts likely to be a dkms issue after a kernel update.