Re: [LIH] wifi not working

Raj Mathur <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.help
Organization Kandalaya
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 01 Dec 2008, Ratnakar Koli wrote:
> I have a compaq presario C797VU, with Ubuntu 8.04 desktop on it. I
> had managed to get wpa-suppliant working on it. But since today
> morning I am not able to get my wifi on.
>
> iwconfig gives me the following output.
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> Please suggest what do i do?

Looks like you don't have any WiFi compatible devices.  Did the WiFi 
card driver get loaded at all?

lspci will tell you which card you have, and a quick 'net search will 
tell you which module you need to load for that card.

Regards,

-- Raju
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