RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC (wireless adapter) not working on toshiba c850 p5010 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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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- Solved by:
- anuj singh
- Solved:
- 2012-08-14
- Last query:
- 2012-08-14
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- 2012-08-14
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
resources: memory:
*-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
resources: ioport:
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-
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-
[sudo] password for anuj:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
linux-headers-
linux-headers-
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.
Linuxant DriverLoader for Wireless LAN devices, version 2.50
No pre-built modules for: Ubuntu-12.04 linux-3.
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
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.

