WirelessAskQuestionAtLaunchpad

Follow his procedure to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card. This information will be useful in posting a question to launchpad:

* https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Step 1

Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2

Copy-paste the following diagnostic command from the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WirelessTroubleshootingProcedure website using Chromium or Firefox into the Terminal. The command starts with the word sudo and ends with the word lsmod. Copy-paste the entire command below from the Web page into a Terminal, press <Enter>. Then, when you are asked for a password, enter your personal password, then press <Enter> again.

Tip: If you have a wheel mouse or 3-button mouse, you do not need to type the commands into the Terminal. Instead, copy the commands from this web page and paste them into the terminal. To do this, move your mouse cursor over the start of the command written on the Web page. Then press the left mouse button and drag the mouse till the end of the command to highlight the whole command; then release the mouse button. Then press the middle mouse button or mouse wheel anywhere inside the Terminal. The command should now be printed in the Terminal without errors. Now press <Enter> to execute the command.~-

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep '8180|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl';  iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep '8180|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod