I also own an X60, that's hilarious.
Hi all, thanks for the replies.
Chris: Yes, I'd tried the wifi toggle switch on the left side and the FN+F5
command for wifi before posting.
risci_atom: ifconfig -a doesn't display anything other than eth0 as well.
It seems like this may be a hardware issue?
onpon4: I'm going to contact
i spent about a week trying to get the wifi to work on my x60 and this was
the problem!
Hi all,
My first post... so I hope this is the right place for such queries.
I'm having trouble getting my system to recognize the presence of the
wireless network card.
I'm running trisquel 7, kernel 3.16 on a libreboot x200 with an atheros
AR5B95 card.
ifconfig output only displays
If absolutely nothing else works, consider getting a wireless adapter
compatible with free software:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
If the laptop was bought from Gluglug (which the OP suggests by calling the
laptop a Libreboot X200), then not working wireless would suggest either a
mistake or broken hardware. So in that case, Gluglug should be contacted to
resolve the problem.
Did you try toggling the switch on the left side of the machine? Does it show
up with ifconfig -a ?
I'm imagining your talking about performance when you say its age. The
problems with older systems tend to be less related to performance (even if
that is an issue due to your use cases) and more with failing parts.
Refurbished stuff in particular. I'm not going to jump to conclusions the
