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fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby daveo1958 on Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:46 am

Hi i have found this works on detecting the wireless in my lenovo Thinkpad Z570 laptop and it works in ubuntu 11.10 as well
hope it works for you in your version of lenovo laptop
Dave

Solution for the Issue

sudo service network-manager stop
sudo rmmod acer_wmi
sudo modprobe acer_wmi
sudo rfkill unblock all
sudo service network-manager start

After this step the status message in the Network Manager will be “Wireless is disabled”
Now Enable wireless from the Network Manager using the following commands

sudo rmmod -f acer_wmi
Wireless networks will be detected and connected.
To make this change permanent use
sudo su
echo "blacklist acer_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit
thanks to david john for the solution
:D
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Re: fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby mads on Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:20 pm

Thanks for this workaround. :)
I have seen this issue several times on our forums. I am sure some users will find this fix quite useful.
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Re: fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby revkensykes on Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:08 am

Hi
Total beginner at this. 1st install of Mint 12 on HP Compaq but no wireless firmware -it says (wired is fine)
It looks to me as this fix might be my answer but I've not a clue what all this sudo stuff is and what you do with it!
Can you point me in the right direction please?
Thanks
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Re: fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby carbonic on Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:25 am

revkensykes wrote:Hi
Total beginner at this. 1st install of Mint 12 on HP Compaq but no wireless firmware -it says (wired is fine)
It looks to me as this fix might be my answer but I've not a clue what all this sudo stuff is and what you do with it!
Can you point me in the right direction please?
Thanks

They are commands you have to enter in the "Terminal". After you have copy pasted the first line of code and pressed enter it will one time ask you for your password.
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Re: fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby mads on Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:33 am

revkensykes wrote:Hi
Total beginner at this. 1st install of Mint 12 on HP Compaq but no wireless firmware -it says (wired is fine)
It looks to me as this fix might be my answer but I've not a clue what all this sudo stuff is and what you do with it!
Can you point me in the right direction please?
Thanks

In Terminal, run:
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inxi -N

If the output shows:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43XX, then you need to install 'firmware-b43-installer' package.
You need to have a wired connection to the internet, then open a terminal window and run:

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
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Re: fix for wireless not dedtected in lenovo laptops

Postby revkensykes on Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:05 pm

Solved Brilliant thanks for that.
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