Hi,
I have an Acer travelmate 4000 notebook which is 8years old. I’ve recently installed Linux 12.3 for the first time in my life and I have a problem. The laptop can’t detect my wireless network. I wondered if I needed to install a driver for the wireless card but I checked Acer website and I couldn’t find any for Linux. Can anyone give me any suggestions about how I can solve the problem?There is no other OS on the laptop
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On 09/30/2013 01:16 PM, swapansethi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an Acer travelmate 4000 notebook which is 8years old. I’ve
> recently installed Linux 12.3 for the first time in my life and I have
> a problem. The laptop can’t detect my wireless network. I wondered if I
> needed to install a driver for the wireless card but I checked Acer
> website and I couldn’t find any for Linux. Can anyone give me any
> suggestions about how I can solve the problem?There is no other OS on
> the laptop
> :\
For that old a laptop, the wireless card should already be in the kernel.
Did you read the stickies at the start of this forum? They will give you some
idea on what you should check. In particular, see if the dmesg output shows
anything about missing firmware.
You also need to post the output for the command ‘/sbin/lspci -nn’. That will
tell us what network card you have.
You should also tell us what desktop you run.