Wireless - Ubuntu - Laptop

[Mark Haney]

Tiago V. Pereira wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to thank you all for the help on my earlier questions. Now, I
> just bought a laptop LG R510, and am facing a common problem: the wireless
> doesn't work. In windows, it does, however. Under ubuntu, I can navigate
> using cable, but not wireless.
> 
> I am googling around keywords for this problem nearly 2 months, but could
> not find out a final solution. ndiswrapper was my first choice. I have
> downloaded it, installed the drivers from the windows vista. It shows that
> the drivers are correctly installed, but no wireless.
> 
> Perhaps I am doing something wrong.
> 
> Any tip is extremely welcome.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Tiago
> 
> 
> lspci provides:
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
> Controller
>  Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express
> Graphi
> cs Port (rev 07)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Control
> ler #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller
>  (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 1 (r
> ev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 2 (r
> ev 03)
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 6 (r
> ev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controll
> er #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Control
> ler #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
> (rev 0
> 3)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
> (rev 03)
> 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9
> Family) The
> rmal Subsystem (rev 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS
> (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI E
> xpress Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

You don't give us output from when you try to bring up the wireless
interface.  Try bringing the interface up manually and post the output
for us.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
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