First of all, I have to say that I am a new user of Ubuntu and I am not familiar with it at all... After installing Ubuntu 12.10 it would not recognise the wireless networks available... How do I fix this?
After trying the Wireless troubleshooting the results are:
The device is on!
The output of the terminal
lshw -C network
is :*-network UNCLAIMED description: Network controller product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:92400000-92403fff *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 05 serial: 4c:72:b9:83:7b:1e size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.10.17 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:90004000-90004fff memory:90000000-90003fff
I tried with no success to find the windows driver, so I cannot use the windows wireless drivers.
The output of the terminal
iwconfig
is :eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions.
The output of
ifconfig
is:eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 4c:72:b9:83:7b:1e inet addr:192.168.10.17 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4e72:b9ff:fe83:7b1e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2705 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2479055 (2.4 MB) TX bytes:257036 (257.0 KB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:49814 (49.8 KB) TX bytes:49814 (49.8 KB)
The output of the terminal
ping -c3 85.190.27.2
is :PING 85.190.27.2 (85.190.27.2) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 85.190.27.2 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms
The output of the terminal
ping www.ubuntu.com
is:64 bytes from avocado.canonical.com (91.189.90.40): icmp_req=1 ttl=50 time=112 ms
a thousand times
No output with the terminal
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
!!
I must be doing something ....