Configuring Wireless on a Toshiba Portege R835
 

Hi guys

I am a linux newbie trying to get the wifi setup on my Toshiba Portege R835. It is running an Intel WiMAX/Wifi Link 6050 Series (rev 5f) wifi card, and I am running ubuntu 10.04.

From the ui under wireless networks it says "device not ready"

I tried running ifconfig and it only shows lo, but if I do ifconfig -a it shows me a wireless card listed under wlan0. I tried running

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

But it gave me an error: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I also looked in lib/firmware and do in fact have iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode listed in there. Unfortunately, I am really not sure how to attack the problem from here.

I should also mention that the wired connections also do not work, so anything I need to download has to be downloaded from a windows boot and burned to a CD to transfer (making the problem much more difficult to solve!)

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Avtar

what distribution do you use? seems like something is wrong with your installation..

4 ways to get wifi working on linux

I am using the 64 bit version that can be found on the website: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

I am using the 64 bit 10.04 version.

Thanks for any help you can provide!