New notebook no Internet

Just bought a new no brand notebook which came with Windows. I installed Endeavour and it ran fine except no network connection. So I ran lshw (below). Is there any wi-fi network hardware? And if not what can I do about it? Thanks in advance.

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    description: Desktop Computer
    product: Default string (Default string)
    vendor: Default string
    version: Default string
    serial: Default string
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-3.0.0 dmi-3.0.0 smp vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=Default string sku=Default string uuid=03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: Default string
       vendor: Default string
       physical id: 0
       version: Default string
       serial: Default string
       slot: Default string
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 1
          version: Y116TE.E.L4B366.2Z9.3S.6GB.XMC.01R2S1W6A1T0S0F0.BC.Intel.D003
          date: 08/27/2024
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 5MiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 31
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 6GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
             product: 123456789012345678
             vendor: ABCD
             physical id: 0
             serial: 1234
             slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
             size: 3GiB
             width: 16 bits
             clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
             product: 123456789012345678
             vendor: ABCD
             physical id: 1
             serial: 1234
             slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
             size: 3GiB
             width: 16 bits
             clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM [empty]
             physical id: 2
             slot: ChannelC-DIMM0
     *-cpu
          product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3350 @ 1.10GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 0
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.92.9
          size: 2291MHz
          capacity: 2400MHz
          width: 64 bits
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault cat_l2 ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms mpx rdt_a rdseed smap clflushopt intel_pt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts vnmi md_clear arch_capabilities cpufreq
          configuration: microcode=72
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Host Bridge
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 0b
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-generic:0
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Intel Corporation
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 0.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=proc_thermal latency=0
             resources: irq:24 memory:91110000-91117fff
        *-display
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: HD Graphics 500
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             logical name: /dev/fb0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
             configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1366,768
             resources: irq:124 memory:90000000-90ffffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0
             logical name: card0
             logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
             logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D2
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D8p
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
             resources: irq:127 memory:91118000-9111bfff memory:91000000-910fffff
           *-input:0
                product: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3
                physical id: 0
                logical name: input12
                logical name: /dev/input/event7
           *-input:1
                product: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7
                physical id: 1
                logical name: input13
                logical name: /dev/input/event8
           *-input:2
                product: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8
                physical id: 2
                logical name: input14
                logical name: /dev/input/event9
        *-communication
             description: Communication controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Trusted Execution Engine
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=mei_me latency=0
             resources: irq:125 memory:91145000-91145fff
        *-sata
             description: SATA controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SATA AHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 0b
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: sata msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
             resources: irq:121 memory:9111c000-9111dfff memory:91142000-911420ff ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f060(size=32) memory:91141000-911417ff
        *-usb
             description: USB controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series USB xHCI
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 15
             bus info: pci@0000:00:15.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi xhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:123 memory:91100000-9110ffff
        *-generic:1
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 16
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:27 memory:91140000-91140fff memory:9113f000-9113ffff
        *-generic:2
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 16.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:28 memory:9113e000-9113efff memory:9113d000-9113dfff
        *-generic:3
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 16.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.2
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:29 memory:9113c000-9113cfff memory:9113b000-9113bfff
        *-generic:4
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 16.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.3
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:30 memory:9113a000-9113afff memory:91139000-91139fff
        *-generic:5
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #5
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 17
             bus info: pci@0000:00:17.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:31 memory:91138000-91138fff memory:91137000-91137fff
        *-generic:6
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #6
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 17.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:17.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:32 memory:91136000-91136fff memory:91135000-91135fff
        *-generic:7
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #7
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 17.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:17.2
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:33 memory:91134000-91134fff memory:91133000-91133fff
        *-generic:8
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series I2C Controller #8
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 17.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:17.3
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:34 memory:91132000-91132fff memory:91131000-91131fff
        *-generic:9
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series HSUART Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 18
             bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:4 memory:91130000-91130fff memory:9112f000-9112ffff
        *-generic:10
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series HSUART Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 18.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:5 memory:9112e000-9112efff memory:9112d000-9112dfff
        *-generic:11 UNCLAIMED
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series HSUART Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 18.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:7c001000-7c001fff memory:7c002000-7c002fff
        *-generic:12
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series HSUART Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 18.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:7 memory:9112c000-9112cfff memory:9112b000-9112bfff
        *-generic:13
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SPI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 19
             bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:35 memory:9112a000-9112afff memory:91129000-91129fff
        *-generic:14
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SPI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 19.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:19.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:36 memory:91128000-91128fff memory:91127000-91127fff
        *-generic:15
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SPI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 19.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:19.2
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel-lpss latency=0
             resources: irq:37 memory:91126000-91126fff memory:91125000-91125fff
        *-generic:16
             description: MMC Host
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SDXC/MMC Host Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             logical name: mmc0
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:3 memory:91124000-91124fff memory:91123000-91123fff
        *-generic:17
             description: MMC Host
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series eMMC Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
             logical name: mmc1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:39 memory:91122000-91122fff memory:91121000-91121fff
           *-device
                description: SD/MMC Device
                product: CJNB4R
                vendor: Unknown (21)
                physical id: 1
                bus info: mmc@1:0001
                date: 07/2016
                serial: 925498487
                capabilities: mmc
              *-interface:0
                   physical id: 1
                   logical name: /dev/mmcblk1rpmb
              *-interface:1
                   physical id: 2
                   logical name: /dev/mmcblk1
                   size: 62537072640
                   capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
                   configuration: guid=8b559827-f013-4dd5-a9e5-a7a96aebfe27 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
                 *-volume:0 UNCLAIMED
                      description: Windows FAT volume
                      vendor: mkfs.fat
                      physical id: 1
                      version: FAT32
                      serial: 0f44-6cca
                      size: 254MiB
                      capacity: 255MiB
                      capabilities: boot fat initialized
                      configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=EFI-SYSTEM name=primary
                 *-volume:1
                      description: EXT4 volume
                      vendor: Linux
                      physical id: 2
                      logical name: /dev/mmcblk1p2
                      logical name: /
                      version: 1.0
                      serial: d6bae6b6-8443-4eec-b71a-0fe1746e3fa1
                      size: 57GiB
                      capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover 64bit extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                      configuration: created=2025-10-27 10:42:28 filesystem=ext4 label=rootMX25 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2025-10-27 14:53:07 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,noatime mounted=2025-10-27 14:53:12 name=primary state=mounted
        *-generic:18
             description: MMC Host
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SDIO Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             logical name: mmc2
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:42 memory:91120000-91120fff memory:9111f000-9111ffff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Low Pin Count Interface
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 0b
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
             resources: irq:0
           *-pnp00:00
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 0
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:01
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 1
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:02
                product: PnP device PNP0f03
                physical id: 2
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=i8042 aux
           *-pnp00:03
                product: PnP device PNP0303
                physical id: 3
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=i8042 kbd
           *-pnp00:04
                product: PnP device PNP0b00
                physical id: 4
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=rtc_cmos
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
             version: 0b
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: driver=i801_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:-2147483648 memory:9111e000-9111e0ff ioport:f040(size=32)
     *-scsi
          physical id: 2
          bus info: usb@2:4
          logical name: scsi2
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: SCSI Disk
             product: DataTraveler 3.0
             vendor: Kingston
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             serial: 0
             size: 14GiB (15GB)
             capabilities: removable
             configuration: ansiversion=6 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
           *-medium
                physical id: 0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                size: 14GiB (15GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: signature=eccffcb6
              *-volume
                   description: W95 FAT32 (LBA) partition
                   physical id: 1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   logical name: /media/ion/ECBC-9FD5
                   logical name: /mnt
                   capacity: 14GiB
                   capabilities: primary
                   configuration: mount.fstype=exfat mount.options=rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro state=mounted
  *-input:0
       product: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
       physical id: 1
       logical name: input0
       logical name: /dev/input/event0
       logical name: input0::capslock
       logical name: input0::numlock
       logical name: input0::scrolllock
       capabilities: i8042
  *-input:1
       product: Intel HID events
       physical id: 2
       logical name: input10
       logical name: /dev/input/event5
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:2
       product: Intel HID 5 button array
       physical id: 3
       logical name: input11
       logical name: /dev/input/event6
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:3
       product: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device
       physical id: 4
       logical name: input15
       logical name: /dev/input/event10
       capabilities: usb
  *-input:4
       product: Lid Switch
       physical id: 5
       logical name: input2
       logical name: /dev/input/event1
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:5
       product: Power Button
       physical id: 6
       logical name: input3
       logical name: /dev/input/event2
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:6
       product: ALPS0001:00 0911:5288 Touchpad
       physical id: 7
       logical name: input8
       logical name: /dev/input/event3
       logical name: /dev/input/mouse0
       capabilities: i2c
  *-input:7
       product: Video Bus
       physical id: 8
       logical name: input9
       logical name: /dev/input/event4
       capabilities: platform

Are you using ethernet or wifi? Post inxi -Na

It has no ethernet input connector, otherwise I would be using that.

Okay but what does it show for inxi -Na You said it has no Internet. I have no idea if it has Ethernet or not or whether it even has WiFi. I don’t know the notebook you have purchased so i can’t even look it up. The command you used does not show any network hardware that’s why i asked for another command to see if it shows any WiFi hardware or is it just the module not loading for that hardware.

That’s a little difficult since I can’t get to a command line interface any more. It now boots to the BIOS and no further. I think it’s destined for the garbage. Thanks for trying to help. I think this my lesson to not buy any no-name computers.

You could be right … :person_shrugging:

Edit: What actually is it?

There is not a single marking anywhere on the notebook. I don’t want to open it up just in case I can get something back. The package was marked “NOTEBOOK”. Bear in mind I am in Mexico where much Oriental garbage is sold uncontrolled.

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