I have replaced my windows installation with Ubuntu 12.04 on my HP notebook but now the wireless doesnt work. I can connect to the internet using an ethernet cable but thats it. The wireless button is also displaying amber but wont change to blue when pressed. Can anyone help me with this?
outputs: sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: a0:48:1c:20:6b:b7
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.5 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:78 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0104000-f0104fff memory:f0100000-f0103fff memory:f0110000-f011ffff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.