Connecting a wireless router

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 15 15:43:57 UTC 2013


On 15 February 2013 14:28, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> ...
> The output of lshw -C Network is
> [snip]

>   *-network DISABLED
>        description: Wireless interface
>        physical id: 1
>        logical name: wlan0
>        serial: 00:19:7d:03:dc:09
>        capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43
> driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes
> wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

So the wireless interface in the PC is recognised but is disabled.  Is
there a switch to enable it?  Perhaps a key combination to press such
as Fn+F11.  Check your PC's manual.

Colin




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