RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC (wireless adapter) not working on toshiba c850 p5010 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Asked by anuj singh on 2012-08-14

hi i have installed ubuntu 12.04 on my toshiba c850 p5010 however i m unbale to connect to wireless LAN as it doesnt detect any Wireless LAN probably the driver are Missing my LAN card is
Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC
please tell me how to insatall drivers and activate my wireless lan i m new to ubuntu do not hve much knowledge about it
thanx

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What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a;uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | egrep -i 'firm|rtl'

Thanks

anuj singh (anuj-lima) said : #2

 *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR8162 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 10
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:88500000-8853ffff ioport:3000(size=128)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: ioport:2000(size=256) memory:88400000-88403fff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux anuj-Satellite-C850 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
this is the message i m getting

anuj singh (anuj-lima) said : #4

i tried it
first command mentioned there and response is given below
anuj@anuj-Satellite-C850:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-`uname -r`
[sudo] password for anuj:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic-pae is already the newest version.
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 339 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up driverloader (2.50-k2.6.31-16-generic-pae-1.ubuntu) ...
Linuxant DriverLoader for Wireless LAN devices, version 2.50

No pre-built modules for: Ubuntu-12.04 linux-3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686-SMP

Please obtain the appropriate variant of this package for your system
or try the generic DEB or tar version.
dpkg: error processing driverloader (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 driverloader
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
thanx
please advice

anuj singh (anuj-lima) said : #5

resolved
thnx very much

Edouard (ebrainis) said : #6

I had the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite C870-15X with an identical wireless card. The link suggested by actionparsnip also worked for me.

Some people reported that the wireless connection was shaky, but I haven't observed that so far. I will update if I encounter problems with this driver.