ksprasad
October 24th, 2012, 12:52 PM
Hi All,
We are finding it difficult to make the wireless work in my friend's laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron. Running on Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.0-30-generic kernel.
lspci | grep -i ethernet
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)
Earlier rfkill was showing that the wifi was hard blocked. However wired internet was working fine. So, after few googling we installed the alx driver from compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p.tar.bz2
This is how we did it.
tar -xvf compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p
cd compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p
scripts/driver-select alx
make
make install
modprobe alx
After the above installation, rfkill all shows:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
But still we are not getting the wireless option.
Is there anything else needs to be done?
iwconfig gives following.
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
usbpn0 no wireless extensions.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
ksprasad
We are finding it difficult to make the wireless work in my friend's laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron. Running on Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.0-30-generic kernel.
lspci | grep -i ethernet
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)
Earlier rfkill was showing that the wifi was hard blocked. However wired internet was working fine. So, after few googling we installed the alx driver from compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p.tar.bz2
This is how we did it.
tar -xvf compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p
cd compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p
scripts/driver-select alx
make
make install
modprobe alx
After the above installation, rfkill all shows:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
But still we are not getting the wireless option.
Is there anything else needs to be done?
iwconfig gives following.
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
usbpn0 no wireless extensions.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
ksprasad