Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu

pjw2011 · 01-20-2009, 01:09 AM

I have recently wiped a laptop which was running Vista. This laptop has an internal wifi card however Ubuntu cannot seem to detect it. It does not show up when issuing the lspci command.

I am unsure as to what type of wireless card it is. Is there anyway forward on this?

Just trying to breath life into an older laptop that was strugling with Vista. It has a celeron intel with 2gb of memory

Regards,

paul

**K-B** · 01-20-2009, 08:21 AM

Type this in the command line (Applications>Accessories>Terminal)

Code:

lspci

The copy the output and post it here.

**wmorri** · 01-20-2009, 09:22 AM

Hi,

Welcome to TSF!!!

Can you tel me what brand and model the laptop is. This way we can find out what wireless card you have and what wifi drivers it uses.

Cheers!

pjw2011 · 01-20-2009, 10:32 AM

the laptop is an entry level bought from PC world in UK its called an E.System (Intel Celeron 540 1.86ghz 80gb hdd dvd+rw. Will post lspci output later. When I did it earlier I could not see anything other than the LAN port.

Regards,

pjw2011 · 01-28-2009, 10:34 PM

Apologies for the delay. below is the output from the command lspci. This laptop I know has an internal wireless card as this worked with the Windows Vista on it.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

**wmorri** · 01-29-2009, 08:13 AM

Hi,

I don't see anything that lists any wireless controller or 802.11 controller. Are you sure that you have wireless connectivity? Were you able to connect wirelessly in Vista, and if so do you still have Vista on the computer, on a different partition?

Cheers!

01-20-2009, 01:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
pjw2011 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3 OS: ubuntu 8.04	Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu I have recently wiped a laptop which was running Vista. This laptop has an internal wifi card however Ubuntu cannot seem to detect it. It does not show up when issuing the lspci command. I am unsure as to what type of wireless card it is. Is there anyway forward on this? Just trying to breath life into an older laptop that was strugling with Vista. It has a celeron intel with 2gb of memory Regards, paul

01-20-2009, 08:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
K-B Moderator, Linux Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NY Posts: 2,880 OS: Vista, Ubuntu My System	Re: Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu Type this in the command line (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) Code: lspci The copy the output and post it here. __________________

01-20-2009, 09:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,827 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu Hi, Welcome to TSF!!! Can you tel me what brand and model the laptop is. This way we can find out what wireless card you have and what wifi drivers it uses. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!

01-20-2009, 10:32 AM	#4 (permalink)
pjw2011 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3 OS: ubuntu 8.04	Re: Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu the laptop is an entry level bought from PC world in UK its called an E.System (Intel Celeron 540 1.86ghz 80gb hdd dvd+rw. Will post lspci output later. When I did it earlier I could not see anything other than the LAN port. Regards,

01-28-2009, 10:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
pjw2011 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3 OS: ubuntu 8.04	Re: Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu Apologies for the delay. below is the output from the command lspci. This laptop I know has an internal wireless card as this worked with the Windows Vista on it. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02) 00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03) 00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

01-29-2009, 08:13 AM	#6 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,827 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: Wireless card not detected on Ubuntu Hi, I don't see anything that lists any wireless controller or 802.11 controller. Are you sure that you have wireless connectivity? Were you able to connect wirelessly in Vista, and if so do you still have Vista on the computer, on a different partition? Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!