Compaq Presario v6310us Notebook PC not recognizing wifi adapter

[rokytnji]

One can See that

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00:14.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)

but no wifi adapter like I show

Code:

harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
   Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
   Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
   Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller [8086:2917] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] [8086:282a] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller [104c:8039]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller [104c:803a]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
02:01.3 SD Host controller [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller [104c:803c]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
   Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]
   Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN [8086:1321]
   Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$

or using

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~$ lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0252]
    Kernel driver in use: e1000e
--
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN [8086:1321]
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

Searching around. Looks like The V6500 uses a broadcom ship. Best we identify which one 1st on your friends rig.
I blogged about broadcom once.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...ess-35655/

When I mention the green area good to go. Back then the link I posted took you to

http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en...ivers/b43/

But 1st find out if Broadcom or not. Lastly. Make sure wireless is turned on the bios 1st. It does not hurt to check this 1st.