Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - wifi issue

**Shunmugavel** · February 26th, 2013

Hi,

I have recently installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS in my laptop. Everything looks cool, i am pretty much happy with it. But i have a minor regarding wifi and wired connection.

Ubuntu is unable to find the wireless or wired connections which are available. I have searched and found to try with the below command,

Code:

rfkill list all

Output of this command doesn't give me any detail about wifi, it states about the bluetooth device only. Can anyone please help me here?

**Shunmugavel** · February 26th, 2013

All,

I have found the solution for the network issue here,

http://somethingcomputers.blogspot.i...untu-1204.html

But the problem is, i don't have proper roles to execute the steps mentioned above in the link. Please find the output below,

Code:

vel@vel-Satellite-C850:~/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p$ 
vel@vel-Satellite-C850:~/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p$ scripts/driver-select alx
bash: scripts/driver-select: Permission denied
vel@vel-Satellite-C850:~/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p$ sudo scripts/driver-select alx
sudo: scripts/driver-select: command not found
vel@vel-Satellite-C850:~/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p$ make
/bin/sh: 1: cannot create /home/vel/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p/.config: Permission denied
make: *** [.compat_autoconf_compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p] Error 2
vel@vel-Satellite-C850:~/vel-home/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p$

Please help.

**squigish** · February 26th, 2013

The directions you linked to have a small error. Adding the ./ in front of scripts/driver-select alx is necessary to tell ubuntu that you want it to execute a command from the current directory, not from the default path.

Code:

cd compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p
./scripts/driver-select alx 
sudo make 
sudo make install 
sudo modprobe alx

The first permission denied error was probably because ubuntu didn't know what you meant by scripts/driver-select

The second one was probably because you forgot to run the command as root (using sudo).

If you ARE running a command as root, and still get a permission denied error, then there's usually something else going on. In theory, root has permission to do (almost) anything.

**Shunmugavel** · February 27th, 2013

Originally Posted by squigish

The directions you linked to have a small error. Adding the ./ in front of scripts/driver-select alx is necessary to tell ubuntu that you want it to execute a command from the current directory, not from the default path.

Code:

cd compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p
./scripts/driver-select alx 
sudo make 
sudo make install 
sudo modprobe alx

The first permission denied error was probably because ubuntu didn't know what you meant by scripts/driver-select

The second one was probably because you forgot to run the command as root (using sudo).

If you ARE running a command as root, and still get a permission denied error, then there's usually something else going on. In theory, root has permission to do (almost) anything.

Hi,

I have even installed it using root user, but still wifi is not enabled and not even shown in the hardware list. Please advice.