I recently got a Satellite A665 from a buddy who was looking to get rid of his stuff. The first thing I did was try to put on Ubuntu 14.04 which went just fine as it has for me in the past. But I couldn't get wifi to work on it. It says a hardware switch was disabling it but I already hit FN+F8 to unblock it that way to no avail. I then went to terminal and typed "rfkill unblock all" but nothing changed. I then put "iwconfig" into terminal and saw I had a wlan0 interface but it didn't work. I saw an eth0, l0, and wmx0 but it said "no wireless extensions". I looked online and saw that I needed a few drivers to support my wifi card but from there in totally confused on what to do. The lshw -c netwrok output: *-network
The lsmod output:
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 1c:75:08:6f:88:17
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:40 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:d0404000-d0404fff memory:d0400000-d0403fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 5f
serial: 00:23:15:9e:72:98
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.16.0-30-generic firmware=41.28.5.1 build 33926 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:43 memory:d4600000-d4601fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wmx0
serial: 64:d4:da:1a:5b:26
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: driver=i2400m_usb firmware=i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf link=noModule Size Used by
rfcomm 69509 0
bnep 19624 2
bluetooth 446409 10 bnep,rfcomm
6lowpan_iphc 18702 1 bluetooth
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 47548 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 72791 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 68937 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
uvcvideo 81073 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13362 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 59104 1 uvcvideo
i2400m_usb 36540 0
v4l2_common 15681 1 videobuf2_core
videodev 153793 3 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core
i2400m 107914 1 i2400m_usb
wimax 34705 1 i2400m
media 21903 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_hda_intel 30469 3
snd_hda_controller 31056 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 139682 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 17698 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 104112 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_seq_midi 13564 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
arc4 12608 2
snd_rawmidi 30876 1 snd_seq_midi
iwldvm 232283 0
snd_seq 63074 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
intel_powerclamp 18823 0
mac80211 652718 1 iwldvm
coretemp 13441 0
kvm_intel 143590 0
kvm 452043 1 kvm_intel
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29562 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
joydev 17393 0
serio_raw 13483 0
intel_ips 18484 0
iwlwifi 179412 1 iwldvm
jmb38x_ms 18736 0
i915 905798 8
memstick 16966 1 jmb38x_ms
cfg80211 494330 3 iwlwifi,mac80211,iwldvm
drm_kms_helper 61574 1 i915
snd 79468 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
drm 311018 5 i915,drm_kms_helper
mei_me 19696 0
toshiba_acpi 28272 0
mei 87875 1 mei_me
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 i915
lpc_ich 21093 0
shpchp 37047 0
soundcore 15047 2 snd,snd_hda_codec
sparse_keymap 13948 1 toshiba_acpi
wmi 19193 1 toshiba_acpi
toshiba_bluetooth 12867 0
ene_ir 18449 0
rc_core 28718 1 ene_ir
video 20128 1 i915
mac_hid 13227 0
parport_pc 32741 0
ppdev 17671 0
lp 17759 0
parport 42348 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
psmouse 106561 0
ahci 34062 2
libahci 32424 1 ahci
r8169 71694 0
sdhci_pci 23301 0
sdhci 43685 1 sdhci_pci
mii 13934 1 r8169
2 Answers
On Toshiba A665, The hardware touch button (on top of the keyboard) to enable/disable the wireless adapter actually works. So may be you need just to press it to enable wireless.
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I tried multiple times and nothing. Prior to ubuntu I tried to install arche and that went fine with wifi connection. Then I tried debian and it said I was missing iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode, iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode, rtl_nic/rtl81868e-2.fw drivers. So I downloaded those in a deb file and clicked the open with Ubuntu Software Center. Then that install failed. Now I'm here. Apr 14, 2015 at 4:00
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There is a button between the speakers with a wifi icon on it that will enable wifi when it is hard blocked. Try it when the Toshiba splash screen is on the monitor when booting if it doesn't work when Ubuntu is running– Jeremy31Apr 15, 2015 at 14:41
If this is identical to yours, the second button from the power button on the right(between F8 and display) should remove a hard block in rfkill on the wifi. I have a Toshiba laptop with a similar setup. The FN combo can only soft block the wifi
sudo lsmod
andsudo lshw -c network
rfkill list all