[ubuntu-za] Moved harddrive to new laptop

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Charl

On 10/05/11 04:12 PM, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> 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?

Which wireless card does it have? Pasting us the output of lspci will
probably help.

-Jonathan