Wireless not working on Toshiba Satellite Pro with Ubuntu 12.10

[john_richardson2]

Wireless not working on new Toshiba Satellite Pro C50-ASeries. Just installed Ubuntu 12.10.

[praseodym]

Hi,
please open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and show the outputs of:

uname -a
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
lsmod
iwconfig
rfkill list
cat /etc/resolv.conf

Does LAN work? I strongly recommend installing Ubuntu 12.04.3 Long Term Support (until April 2017), which ships a newer Kernel than 12.10 (support until April 2014 only).

[john_richardson2]

Here is the output:

   leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ uname -a
Linux leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:32:08 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:0191]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 10f1:1a52 Importek 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
bnep                   17707  2 
rfcomm                 37276  0 
bluetooth             183228  10 bnep,rfcomm
parport_pc             31968  0 
ppdev                  12817  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek    63356  1 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     31423  1 
joydev                 17161  0 
snd_hda_intel          32515  5 
snd_hda_codec         111547  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13272  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                80163  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
radeon                820703  3 
snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
snd_rawmidi            25382  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
kvm_amd                54394  0 
kvm                   357806  1 kvm_amd
snd_seq                51255  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
uvcvideo               71277  0 
snd_timer              24411  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14137  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse                84843  0 
i2c_piix4              12983  0 
ttm                    75534  1 radeon
video                  18847  0 
shpchp                 32189  0 
drm_kms_helper         45271  1 radeon
drm                   230463  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
rts5139               281367  0 
lp                     13299  0 
snd                    61991  20 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
mac_hid                13037  0 
i2c_algo_bit           13197  1 radeon
k10temp                12958  0 
parport                40753  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
videobuf2_core         32070  1 uvcvideo
videodev               95841  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
soundcore              14599  1 snd
videobuf2_vmalloc      12756  1 uvcvideo
microcode              18209  0 
snd_page_alloc         14036  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw              13031  0 
videobuf2_memops       13184  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
r8169                  55976  0 
leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ rfkill list
leezabin@leezabin-Satellite-C55D-A:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1

My other computer is installed with 12.10 and I am planning to upgrade both in April 2014.
Thanks.

[varunendra]

Welcome to the forums John

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:0191]

Please follow the instructions in this post and let us know if it makes your wifi work.

PS:
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[john_richardson2]

Linux driver downloaded directly from realtek's site (RTL8188CE) Solved the problem. Thank you!

[varunendra]

Congrats !

And thanks for the feedback, it helps us a lot to be more helpful next time

[john_richardson2]

Recently when updating software this driver was dumped or disabled leaving the laptop wireless, again. I reinstalled it using the same instructions with success.