Toshiba Satellite C660-119 No WIFI

[jawsykilla]

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

[smuthavarapu]

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

[slamelov]

Same problem here, any help?

[smuthavarapu]

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

[smuthavarapu]

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.

[markgw]

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

After installing the drivers as above, I ran

sudo modprobe r8192ce_pci
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

and it worked right away.

Thanks for the solution!

[IWantFroyo]

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

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

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

For wpa/2 keys:

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

Leave any *s out.

[Low2ik]

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