#Intel r wifi link 5100 agn driver install

Thanks to all the provided information and kept me from going down a rabbit hole with no way out. I wasn't able to locate any indication it could be made to work. I removed the wireless card as it was useless.

#Intel r wifi link 5100 agn driver install

I guess I could install Mint on the Studio laptop and see if that works as it does on another laptop. I seem to know what is in the laptop and the wireless driver but don't know what to change in terms of setup and/or software. Of course it has a different network card/driver/firmware (driver=iwl3945 driverversion=4.15.0-43-generic firmware=15.32.2.9 ). I also have a Dell D560 running Mint (latest version as of ( and updated) and can connect to my wireless network. Zzzzzzzzzzzz Infra 1 195 Mbit/s 65 ▂▄▆_. Mynetwork Infra 1 195 Mbit/s 70 ▂▄▆_ WPA1 WPA2 Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Infra 9 195 Mbit/s 77 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 Xxxxxxxxxxx Infra 36 405 Mbit/s 82 ▂▄▆█. IN-USE SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY Just to show that the hardware is on at least to receive I did: nmcli d wifi list Whenever I try and connect to it I get popup box error saying 'activation of network connection failed I can see many broadcast SSID including my own. My issue is different than what others have posted.I looked at but didn't see my exact wifi card listed so maybe that means it doesn't work with Ubuntu.(The page list Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN and iwlagn driver but my card is not designated 'AGN. Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN Serial: *********************************Ĭapabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wirelessĬonfiguration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.15.0-43-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 I believe my driver is driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.15.0-43-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692įrom the partial output of running sudo lshw *-network

I ran this and found out that the wifi controller is an Intel WiFi Link lspci -nnk | grep 'Network controller'Ġ4:00.0 Network controller : Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100