[ltp] Model??

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Beartooth <Beartooth at comcast.net>

| 	Hmmm.... Would E570 in the extreme upper right corner of the rim 
| around the keyboard be a model number?

E570 would be the model number.

On the bottom there should be a label with a more detailed "type"
number.  That would actually tell us about your notebook's hardware as
shipped.

If you go to Lenovo's support site, it probably expains where to find
this information.

The command lshw (for LiSt HardWare) would tell you tonnes of stuff.
You may have to install this package.

The command dmesg would tell you what the kernel is seeing.
Unfortunately, it's not at all clear to the uninitiated.

The command "journalctr -b" will show you the system log ("-b" means "since last
boot).  It will include the kernel log and the daemon logs.
Unfortunately, it's not at all clear to the uninitiated.

| > My crystal ball says it has nothing to do with hardware,
| 
| 	Well, that may save me a (possibly futile) trip to the shop. Any 
| ideas what else might be wrong? Offhand, I recall only a little of what 
| I've installed besides Fedora 30: Alpine, Pan, and pretty much every 
| browser available via dnf, plus Vivaldi and Opera.

It's unlikely that any of those would cause networking to fail.

But, in case you've mucked something up, trying a live system booted from 
a USB stick might be a good test.

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Wired ethernet is usually the least tricky to set up.  If possible,
start there.

Most North Americal residential internet services (cable internet
(DOCSIS) and phone wire internet (*DSL)) are provided through a
combination modem / router and they usually have about four wired
ports and one wireless one.

How is it that you have such a tough time finding an ethernet socket
connected to your router?  Perhaps you set them up a while ago and
have forgotten.

How is it that you have multiple WLANs (Wireless Local Areal Network)?
Normally that would be through additional devices that you installed
but you don't seem to know about them.  Some might belong to your
neighbours.

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If you get a wired connection going, the first thing to do might be to
run "sudo dnf update".  Sometimes that fixes bugs and it is an easy
thing to do.

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Last week, I found my Lenovo Yoga 2 pro running Fedora 30 could not
connect to one hotel's WLAN.  Nor could Win10 on that notebook.  But a
different notebook runing Fedora 30 could and so could our Android
phones.  I never solved that problem.