So...I may have made a huge mistake. I can't get my wifi working on my work Lonovo T410 after formatting the drive with windows 7 on it. I think the wifi may have been shut off when I obliterated the old install...
Here's what I know, when I run lshw -C network
, I get this output:
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 35
serial: 00:27:10:d7:b1:a0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.11.0-15-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:43 memory:f2400000-f2401fff
So it looks like there is a driver there, and it is installed correctly. Though if anyone has guidance beyond Ubuntus own troubleshooting guide, I'd love to hear it.
I got this laptop to take to a programming conference this weekend, and wanted to quickly get Ubuntu up and running so that I could be productive when I got there. In my rush I formatted the drive and threw Ubuntu 12.04 onto the laptop.
Small problem, the Windows 7 install was a fully configured install (they're just going to flash the laptop when I give it back, so no worries there.) I think they had the wifi turned off for security purposes... So now I can't turn the wifi on, no matter what I do.
The end of Ubuntu's official documentation says to just go to the old OS and turn the wifi on, but I don't have that option anymore (out of time...). Does anyone know how to just force the wifi back on?