I have a new Alienware R5 laptop, and I'm trying to get the wireless to work on Ubuntu 16.04 (currently, only Ethernet works). How can I get wireless to work on this laptop?
Results of sudo lshw -C network
:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Qualcomm Atheros
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:44:00.0
logical name: enp68s0
version: 10
serial: e4:b9:7a:55:76:22
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx duplex=full ip=18.47.7.173 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:18 memory:9dc00000-9dc3ffff ioport:3000(size=128)
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:45:00.0
version: 29
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:9db00000-9db03fff
Kernel information:
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic
Architecture: x86-64
I have tried solutions already posted, including using the solution in Alienware 17 R4 Ubuntu 16.04 WiFi driver, but it does not work for me unfortunately. When I run the final step sudo make install
, I get the following result (and upon reboot, wifi does not work).
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
INSTALL /home/user/backport-iwlwifi/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
INSTALL /home/user/backport-iwlwifi/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/iwlmvm.ko
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
INSTALL /home/user/backport-iwlwifi/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/xvt/iwlxvt.ko
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
INSTALL /home/user/backport-iwlwifi/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
INSTALL /home/user/backport-iwlwifi/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
At main.c:160:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
DEPMOD 4.15.0-43-generic
depmod will prefer updates/ over kernel/ -- OK!
Note:
You may or may not need to update your initramfs, you should if
any of the modules installed are part of your initramfs. To add
support for your distribution to do this automatically send a
patch against "update-initramfs.sh". If your distribution does not
require this send a patch with the '/usr/bin/lsb_release -i -s'
("Ubuntu") tag for your distribution to avoid this warning.
Your backported driver modules should be installed now.
Reboot.
New to Ubuntu, any help greatly appreciated!
lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list
terminal command.