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Lenovo T61 Thinkpad Wireless issues

Debated Nothing

Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:22:44 pm

Hi, I'm trying to revive this laptop by installing linux on it, but I have an issue. The wireless isn't working at all, I've tried three different distros thusfar (Mint, OpenSUSE and Zorin) to no avail. I've checked in the BIOS, it should be on, the switch to manually disable wireless is set to on, and I've tried the function key+f5 combo to toggle wireless several times.

I am quite the amateur to Linux, but I believe this to be a drivers issue? Does anyone know how to find and install the drivers for the wireless card? If this isn't at all possible anyone got a USB wifi thing they would reccommend for use with Zorin?

madvinegar

Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:47:24 pm

Can you please post here the results of the following terminal commands?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all
lsmod