Toshiba Satellite C660-119 No WIFI

Hi there got a new Toshiba Satellite C660-119, very good laptop I might point out. It came with Win 7 and that's all good and dandy but I love Ubuntu. I have set-up and maintained a Ubuntu server for quite some time and also have it dual boot with win 7 on my Desktop machine so that's what I did with the laptop.

All is working well but most of the Fn functions do not work including the WiFi on or off toggle. This is a massive issue because this laptop has no hardware WiFi switch and I can't figure for the life of me how to switch it on through the software. I used Ndiswrapper to install the winXP drivers for the WiFi which is a Realtek 8187B.

I had a look under /etc/acpi/events and found tosh-wireless which I took a look at but couldn't figure out which key combination it wanted me to press. acpi_listen didn't work and xev didn't give me the keycodes I needed. The Fn keys that work are the one to disable the trackpad, the hibernate, lock screen, brightness adjust DOES NOT work.

Ndiswrapper-GTK reported the Hardware to be present but my understanding is it is not turned on.
I am currently installing 10.10 to see if that will solve anything.

Any ideas?
OS: Ubuntu 10.04

Did you manage to make ti Work. I have got the same loptop with my friend, I am trying to get the Wireless working. Any help on this one will be much appreciated

Same problem here, any help?

Yes I have managed to make to Work. I have downloaded the Drives from here

I have installed rtl8192ce linux drivers

after installation activate the module with the following command

modprobe rtl8192ce

that did the trick. Toshiba C660 Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit

Here is the latest update on this one.

The members of the team of ubuntu Catalan warned me that there was the Realtek driver from repositories.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wireless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms

From time works well.

Credit goes to the user who provided this info to me.

This worked perfectly for me on my Toshiba Satellite C660-153.

After installing the drivers as above, I ran

Code:

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sudo modprobe r8192ce_pci
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

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and it worked right away.

Thanks for the solution!

Code:

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ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "your network name* key *WEP KEY*
dhcpcd wlan0

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You could also try this. If your network doesn't need a key, just use this:

Code:

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ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid *your network name*
dhcpcd wlan0

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For wpa/2 keys:

Code:

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ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid *your network name* key s:*WPA/WPA2 KEY*

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Leave any *s out.

Hello. Can you help me please? I've downloaded the file and i don't know how to do to install it. Could anyone tell me what to do to install it? Thanks