[Solved] Help - Will my WiFi card work?
Posted: 20 Oct 2019, 17:26
So, let me start off by saying I'm really a newb to using linux. There's so little that I actually know how to use correctly, but I'm experimenting for the purpose to learn more. Anyway, I started looking at portable distros that I could put on a USB stick to test out, and I narrowed them down to two - Slax or Porteus. In the end, I decided to go for porteus, since it just looked more appealing Right now I'm using the flash drive on an old HP laptop of mine from probably around 2013. It's a HP Envy Sleekbook that had Windows 8 on it, but linux just works so much better, especially Porteus. Most things are working fine, with an exception of one thing: my wireless. I can hook it up with an ethernet cable, but with the way things are set up it would be so much easier for me to get the wireless card working. I've tried desperately to find a solution to my problem online before making a post, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. Porteus doesn't really seem to even want to detect the wireless card, and I don't even know if it's a card that will work.
I've tried using pns-tool but it just fails, and afterward I can't figure out how to re-enable network services without restarting.
I've tried a few commands I found online to see what my card is through the terminal: here's what I got.
lspci -knn
lsusb -t
So, can anybody help me to see if there's any way I can get this working? Again, I really am a newb to linux, so I'd probably need some pretty step-by-step instructions. Thanks!
I've tried using pns-tool but it just fails, and afterward I can't figure out how to re-enable network services without restarting.
I've tried a few commands I found online to see what my card is through the terminal: here's what I got.
lspci -knn
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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex [1022:1410]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Richland [Radeon HD 8610G] [1002:990f]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller [1002:9902]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1414]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1415]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1417]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:7814] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7804]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 16)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel modules: i2c_piix4
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge [1022:780f] (rev 40)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 0 [1022:1400]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 1 [1022:1401]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 2 [1022:1402]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 3 [1022:1403]
Kernel driver in use: k10temp
Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 4 [1022:1404]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 5 [1022:1405]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec]
Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
Kernel modules: rt2800pci
02:00.1 Bluetooth [0d11]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth [1814:3298]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec]
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5229] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1995]
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
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/: Bus 06.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 5000M
/: Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=, Driver=usb-storage, 480M
/: Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ohci-pci/5p, 12M
/: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ohci-pci/5p, 12M
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/5p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 1, Class=, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/5p, 480M