I am using a Dell Vostro 3560 with Win 7 x64 and Ubuntu 12.04 as dual boot. Earlier my room WiFi was getting detected in both Ubuntu and Windows 7. But recently I moved to a different location (country) and the WiFi in the hostel doesn't seem to be detected by Ubuntu, although I can connect it from Win 7 and it works fine in windows. Ubuntu shows a lot of other WiFi connections (available in that range); but wouldn't show the WiFi I need to connect to.
I have tried connecting using the hidden network option, but it doesn't work either. Can someone please help me on this?
Output of lshw -C network:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: f0:1f:af:0d:08:ba
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4
03/27/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:41 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c2404000-c2404fff memory:c2400000-c2403fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: f8:2f:a8:bf:0e:e1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.20.155.1 (r326264) ip=192.168.1.120 latency=0
multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
resources: irq:17 memory:c2500000-c2507fff
Also, I found out that its a Comtrend 802.11n Gigabit Router. Any help?
lshw -C network
(and put the output in your question), it will tell us what wireless card / chip-set is being used; we can then google for the proper linux driver, or an inf to download.