[SOLVED] Wi-Fi not working on ThinkPad SL510

[jackerbes]

I recently copied my LM19 install from a Toshiba laptop to a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop. The new laptop had a W7 install on it and I used clonezilla to copy root and home images to new partitions and then running the LM19 install from a USB stick to get the grub and dual boot working. All my data appears to have been transferred to the new laptop successfully.

Both wireless and ethernet are working on the W7 install, only ethernet works on the LM19 install. I see this for networking from the terminal with inxi -Fzx

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Network:   Card-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
           bus-ID: 05:00.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 port: 3000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
           IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

I am no longer seeing any wi-fi connections being offered from the icon in the panel where I used to see and choose my home network wi-fi connection from. It only shows an ethernet connection.

I wonder if there is some way to erase and replace or update all the hardware info that relates to the wi-fi hardware in this SL510.

Any suggestions are appreciated...

Jack

[JeremyB]

See the wireless script link in my signature and post results

[jackerbes]

Thanks for the reply, here is the URL:

http://termbin.com/smwz

Jack

[JeremyB]

What is the result for

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dpkg -l | grep 4.15.0-38

[jackerbes]

I don't see any result for that command:

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jack@jack-SL510:~$ dpkg -l | grep 4.15.0-38
jack@jack-SL510:~$ 

Tried it with and without su...

Jack

[JeremyB]

Try

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sudo apt install --reinstall linux-image-generic

reboot

[jackerbes]

Whoopee! You fixed it!

Got a new menu and was able to enable wifi from there, and then I got my normal menu back, connected, all is working fine.

Can you tell me, in layman's terms, what that last command did?

Jack

[JeremyB]

It reinstalled the kernel as something must have been corrupted

[jackerbes]

OK, thanks again for the help!

Jack