Network cards not detected

[lonewolf88]

Toshiba T110 laptop, 4 meg ram, kernel 2.6.31-14; multi boot Suse / Ubuntu / Windows; Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card; Realtek RTL8191 SE wireless card.


Installed 9.10 from an old DVD lying around - everything appeared to go ok, but no networks cards - Ethernet or wireless - were detected during the install.

(Later versions do not install - problems somewhere with video card - I need to allow multi kernel selection - but this is another issue)

Does this mean that this install is toast, or can it be saved?

Thanks!

[Koffeehaus]

Under the desktop menu System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers, the STA drivers can be activated for use.

If that doesn't work try this:



sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb wl && sudo modprobe wl



And then check Additional Drivers again

[Koffeehaus]

P.S you'd be needing a wired connection to do that :)

[lonewolf88]

P.S you'd be needing a wired connection to do that :)

Thanks, had it all working, installed 9.4, then new kernel, then upgraded to newer version.

All worked fine until I "upgraded" to 10.10; now only boots in text mode. :(

[Koffeehaus]

Thanks, had it all working, installed 9.4, then new kernel, then upgraded to newer version.

All worked fine until I "upgraded" to 10.10; now only boots in text mode. :(

No probs, I had the same issue when I upgraded from Mint 9 to Mint 10. Didn't have any problems when I switched to the original Maverick though.