Toshiba Satellite s855-50: no ethernet, no wireless
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:28 am
I bought a Toshiba Satellite s855-50 for school and I cannot get an internet connection through mint. Neither wifi or ethernet works. I have win7 pre-installed and it (obviously) works fine. I know very little about linux so I don't know where to start. I tried using a usb wifi adapter but it was not recognized. here is the output from mintwifi:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8723
==> PCI ID = 10ec:8723
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for *****:
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Does anyone know what to do?
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8723
==> PCI ID = 10ec:8723
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for *****:
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Does anyone know what to do?