[ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

[Yorvyk]

On Wed, 04 May 2011 07:53:35 +0100
Jon Reynolds <maillist at 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.

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