> > I'd appreciate guidance and directions to get this working this week; as > a > last resort, I'll bring it to Sunday's clinic for help from all the experts > there. > > > What radio does it have? lspci should say? > > Russell, > > Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000. > > Rich > > > Rich - I found two articles that talk about this wireless radio being soft blocked. You just need to install rfkill either through the package manager or command line with "apt-get install rfkill" then run the "rfkill list" command.
http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/05/how-to-solve-no-wireless-network-in-ubuntu-11-04-centrino-wireless-n-1000/ http://mikebeach.org/2011/07/09/ubuntu-and-the-intel-centrino-wireless-n-1000-wireless-card/ If when you run the "frkill list" and no "wireless lan" interface is listed than you've got an incompatible / non-functional driver problem. HTH! Cheers, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
