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Enable Wifi in network

Asked by Alistair

I recently installed Ubuntu on 2 seperate laptops doing away with Windows. Whilst my old Acer is working fine on the home wireless wifi the other laptop (Dell Inspiron) does not seem to have the wireless network showing in the network list and I cannot connect it to the wifi network. The enable wifi key (above F2) doesn't do anything now
I have checked all the help files but as I'm new to Ubuntu I'm getting a little frustrated as I dont seem to be able to find the answer on how to enable the wifi.
I'm also not sure if I'm reporting this correctly as its not a 'bug'
Can someone please assist me?
Kindest regards
Alistair Milne

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

Can you temporarily connect the offending laptop with cable to the router?

Open a Terminal and input: lspci |grep Network

Can you copy and paste the result here?

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Alistair (stax6557) said : 		#2

Yes I can temp connect via cable but I'm not very familiar with opening a
terminal. Can you explain in some more detail please then I can do as asked?
Thanks
Alistair.

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Alistair

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Press CTRL + ALT + T

You will launch a terminal.

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Alistair (stax6557) said : 		#4

Thanks for that
Ive got a script but can't copy it.
I'm trying Cntrl C, Cntrl V but can't copy the script.
How do you copy from the terminal?
Thanks
Alistair

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Alistair (stax6557) said : 		#5

Hi Andrew
Ive managed to download the correct drivers for my wireless broadband and everything is okay now
Greatly appreciate you assistance and help
Regards
Alistair

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Alistair (stax6557) said : 		#6

All sorted now

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Please mark as solved

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