Bought a new laptop recently and tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 on it.
Seemed to go all right but the wireless doesn't seem to be working.
Here is some more info - any help would be greatly appreciated.
>ipconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:60:00:0f:14:0e
inet addr:192.168.1.7 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ca60:ff:fe0f:140e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:7
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17506548 (17.5 MB) TX bytes:2166933 (2.1 MB)
Interrupt:57
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:223379 (223.3 KB) TX bytes:223379 (223.3 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:92:9c:7b:f9:8e
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7a92:9cff:fe7b:f98e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:334 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:152811 (152.8 KB) TX bytes:42359 (42.3 KB)
>route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.1.1
EDIT.
>lspci -v
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 100
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 100 BGN
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 55
Memory at de800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
EDIT2
iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TALKTALK-C63BD0"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 34:08:04:C6:3B:D0
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=67/70 Signal level=-43 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:8 Invalid misc:242 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
