On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 7:46:38 PM AEST stripes theotoky via luv-main wrote:
Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard.
From the reviews that sounds like a nice laptop.
The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED).
I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable
Did it ever work on Wifi? If so when did it stop working and what changes correlated with that?
I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down
which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces.
Isn't vboxnet0 an interface for Virtualbox VMs? It doesn't look like it would be correlated with Wifi. The command "lspci" can indicate whether hardware is detected. Are wifi drivers loaded? The command "lsmod" should give useful indication.
This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key.
Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system?
We need more information to determine that. One thing to note is that Officeworks has USB Wifi devices starting at $27. So if you can't get the onboard Wifi going it shouldn't cost a lot to buy a USB device to replace it. Such USB devices are really handy to have at any time, so if you buy one and fix the onboard wifi later you probably won't feel like you wasted your money. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/