laptop toshiba satellite pro has a dual boot- windows 7 and ubuntu 10.04. Am failing to connect wireless using ubuntu but mananging Windows 7. No wireless network is being detected. Please help

Hi,
I have Toshiba Satellite L500 and similar problem with 10.04.
First, try 10.10, at least in Live mode. If 10.10 determines your WiFi card, then you obviously should upgrade your 10.04 to 10.10. Mine worked this way.
Second, if 10.10 is still of no help, then you need to determine which WiFi card you have (Win7 can help you with this) and then search for drivers.
Good luck!

darkduck thanks tried maverick also failed. Will try windows to search for drivers.

Hello together,

could you both please open a terminal and post the output of andMarkus

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
43:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
44:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

:~$ sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3261 0
nls_cp437 4931 0
vfat 9201 0
fat 48240 1 vfat
usb_storage 40172 0
isofs 30022 1
rfcomm 33811 4
binfmt_misc 6599 1
sco 7998 2
bnep 9542 2
l2cap 37008 16 rfcomm,bnep
vboxnetadp 6454 0
vboxnetflt 15152 0
vboxdrv 190199 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 9812 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 54887 1
snd_hda_intel 22107 2
i915 290938 3
snd_hda_codec 87552 3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
rt2860sta 504366 0
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
arc4 1165 2
joydev 8735 0
rt2800pci 8565 0
rt2800lib 28897 1 rt2800pci
rt2x00usb 9779 1 rt2800lib
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
rt2x00pci 6029 1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt 1351 2 rt2860sta,rt2800pci
rt2x00lib 27275 4 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00usb,rt2x00pci
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
mac80211 231541 3 rt2x00usb,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
btusb 10969 2
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
uvcvideo 55847 0
hp_accel 12532 0
drm 168054 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
bluetooth 50500 9 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
videodev 43098 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 13359 2 uvcvideo,videodev
hp_wmi 5191 0
lis3lv02d 8524 1 hp_accel
input_polldev 3491 1 lis3lv02d
led_class 2633 2 rt2x00lib,hp_accel
cfg80211 144470 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
intel_agp 26360 2 i915
eeprom_93cx6 1345 1 rt2800pci
psmouse 59033 0
serio_raw 4022 0
snd 49006 13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_se q_device
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
intel_ips 11101 0
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
video 18712 1 i915
soundcore 880 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
output 1883 1 video
lp 7342 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ahci 19013 0
libahci 21667 4 ahci
r8169 36489 0
mii 4425 1 r8169

have you read this?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1314747
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1490123

Hello cleopatra,

it seems that the apropriate module which is "rt2860sta" is loaded. But there are other modules loaded for Ralink-wireless-chips which seem redundant to me. I'd recommend to blacklist the other modules and try out if wireless works as desired afterwards.

At first you may execute the commandthis gives a more verbose output. Look at the section for the Wireless-adapter, the first line isat the end of this section you'll find a line with the moduel which is yet loaded for the device. You may post this whole section here.

Please read the documentation for Ubuntu, "Blacklisting modules" and blacklist rt2800lib, rt2800pci, rt2x00lib and rt2x00usb.

After blacklisting you'll have to reboot.

Good luck

Markus

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markush

Thanks managed to connect wireless after blacklisting blacklist rt2800lib, rt2800pci, rt2x00lib and rt2x00usb.