Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Installing Wireless Driver on Toshiba L15 S104

If you are wondering how to get wireless to work on Ubuntu over a Toshiba L15 S104 laptop, heres what I did. HTH:

Summary: Theres no linux driver for the InProComm wireless card on the Toshiba L15 S104. So, we have to use the ndiswrapper package that wraps around a windows driver and provides the functionality
install ndiswrapper

Steps:
1. Get the driver
           On Windows: Get the driver from http://drivers.windows9download.net/162/toshiba-l15-s104-inprocomm-wireless-lan-driver-for-windows-xp-807269.html
           Run the exe, which will unzip the drivers directory. Look for the WinXP directory, and copy it over to the ubuntu box

2. Install ndiswrapper
           apt-get install ndisgtk
           apt-get install ndiswrapper-dkms

3. Install the drivers using ndiswrapper
           sudo ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/Winxp/neti2220.inf
           # check that it worked
           sudo ndiswrapper -l
               neti2220 : driver installed
               device (17FE:2220:1468:0310) present
               device (17FE:2220) present

           sudo depmod -a
           sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
           sudo ndiswrapper -m
           sudo vi /etc/modules   # add "ndiswrapper" to the module list (w/o quotes)

You should now be able to see the wireless options on the network options.

Thanks to the ubuntu forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1516427. What I have done is added a few steps that I tripped on and not given in that forum