downloaded 1: Wary 5.3, 2: Wary 5.5 ,3: Racy 5.5 and 4: Precise 571 isos to older computor with cddrive.
Burned the isos on four different cds. Booted the distro from cd on the older computor.
From within the distro I then installed on an usbdrive and tested one after the other.
The first three all booted ok, but could NOT find wlan.
Tried then Precise 5.7.1 , booted ok, and found the wlan.
Both Frisbee and Barrys simple tool worked hasslefree.
Goeran
Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E 130
I presume from the title that the computer in question was a Thinkpad Edge E130?
If so, it probably has one of two wireless adapters: "Thinkpad bgn wireless", which at that time meant a rebranded RTL8192SE (requires kernel 3.x), or Intel wireless.
Type "lspci -nnk |grep -A 2 -i net" in a terminal on Precise to figure out which it is; if you can't tell, post the output.
If so, it probably has one of two wireless adapters: "Thinkpad bgn wireless", which at that time meant a rebranded RTL8192SE (requires kernel 3.x), or Intel wireless.
Type "lspci -nnk |grep -A 2 -i net" in a terminal on Precise to figure out which it is; if you can't tell, post the output.
Hi....goeran wrote:thank you, tried the command "lspci -nnk |grep -A 2 -i net"
but no output.
Just try posting from the shorter version...
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lspci -nnk
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thanks again, simple is good
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 [8086:0888] (rev c4)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN [8086:4262]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 [8086:0888] (rev c4)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN [8086:4262]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
So it's Intel wireless. My guess is that you need a newish kernel for iwlwifi to support the hardware; but if you want to poke around on older kernels, you might trygoeran wrote:thanks again, simple is good
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 [8086:0888] (rev c4)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN [8086:4262]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5008]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
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grep iwlwifi /proc/modules
#if that shows nothing:
modprobe iwlwifi
dmesg |tail
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modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi