[ubuntu-za] Moved harddrive to new laptop

[Charl Wentzel]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:10 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
> > 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.

Hi Jonathan

I know I could probably find a way to updated the driver for the
Wireless card directly but, I was actually hoping for some "system wide"
feature that would force Ubuntu to load all missing drivers.

Just because you asked, the WiFi card is:
  Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 
  [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

The interesting output is probably from nm-tool:

  - Device: wlan0  
  ----------------------------------------------------------------
    Type:              802.11 WiFi
    Driver:            iwl3945
    State:             unavailable
    Default:           no
    HW Address:        00:1B:77:61:98:B3

    Capabilities:

    Wireless Properties
      WEP Encryption:  yes
      WPA Encryption:  yes
      WPA2 Encryption: yes

    Wireless Access Points 

Also the output from lsmod:
  iwl3945                85550  0 
  iwlcore               127415  1 iwl3945
  mac80211              231959  2 iwl3945,iwlcore
  cfg80211              144694  3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211

>From this it seems that the driver might actually be loaded, but that
that something has been disabled.

If I right-click on my Network Manager icon, the option "Enable
wireless" is greyed out.  

Regards
Charl