[ubuntu-za] Moved harddrive to new laptop

[Charl Wentzel]

Hi Guys

I performed a terrible hack.  Lightning blew the Ethernet port on my
Acer Laptop.  I had a spare HP laptop with an Intel processor from the
same processor family.  Due to time limitation and the fear of not
installing a critical component I simply transferred my hard drive from
the one to the other.  To my surprise it booted as if nothing was wrong.

The only thing I had to do to get networking working was to delete all
entries in the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file.

However, it seems that it did not go as perfectly as hoped.  The new
laptop uses a different WiFi card.  It is detected by Ubuntu, but the
driver for it does not seem to be loaded.

Is there a way to force Ubuntu to detect all hardware components again
and load the appropriate drivers?

Regards
Charl