On Wed, 04 May 2011 07:53:35 +0100 Jon Reynolds <maill...@jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011 23:15:00 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > > Sorry about the double post but I'm going to quote the section. It's > > a pain on a mobile. > > > > " ************************************ pci wireless devices > > ************************************ > > > > 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8192] (rev 01) Subsystem: > > Askey > > Computer Corp. Device [144f:7160] Kernel modules: r8192e_pci 03:00.0 > > Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] > > (rev 02) > > > > ************************************" > <snip> > > Yes the device shows up, but I mean I don't know how to make it turn > on... in those notes, you see there are no attached wireless interfaces. > When I do ifconfig -a there is no wlan entry. > > Hopefully this is an easy solution to someone, but I am not sure what I > am looking for. All I know is it was working before. > > Anyway, I am going to reformat the whole netbook. Its still got a > restore partition that came with it which is wasting 10Gb or so... > > Going to do a fresh Ubuntu 11,04 part. + /home part. + XP part. > > See how it works out of the box. > On some notebooks/laptops there is a function key that enables WiFi. I've found with upgrades that this sets it's self to disable the WiFi, but doesn't with a clean install. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/