Windows wireless drivers not showing in ubuntu 14.04

[KaseyBarn]

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and figured out I needed to download Windows Wireless Drivers Application. But once I install it it doesn't seem to be anywhere, it shows I have it downloaded but I can not access it. Any help?

 

[skittle]

Post output of lspci |grep-i wireless

Very Unlikely you need windows drivers.

 

[mbreslin1954]

Drivers written for Windows, a different operating system, will not work in Ubuntu. You need Ubuntu, or Linux, drivers for devices under Ubuntu.

 

[skittle]

Drivers written for Windows, a different operating system, will not work in Ubuntu

Not 100% true. Using ndiswrapper generally you can use the windows driver but this use is discouraged if Linux drivers are available. (Ex. with certain broadcom chips sometimes no Linux driver exists!)

Most likely OP just needs to install WiFi chip firmware.

 

[mbreslin1954]

Thanks for educating me!

 

[Muhamed Huseinbasic]

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and figured out I needed to download Windows Wireless Drivers Application. But once I install it it doesn't seem to be anywhere, it shows I have it downloaded but I can not access it. Any help?

Did you find any solution? I have the same problem as you do.

 

[purplediane]

Did you find any solution? I have the same problem as you do.

I also have this problem. The output from

lspci |grep -i wireless

is

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter

But the Network Manager acts like there is no wireless available at all.

Any suggestions?

 

[skittle]

What Linux (and version) do you use? This device (rtl8192ee) is very new, support was added to the kernel recently.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=4164c23d2e3b4863ca42d72f40dc7cc5d9fb8c6c

Appears Ubuntu 14.04 has support for it though (13.10 will not)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/linux-firmware/filelist
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin (check to see if this file exists on your filesystem)
check your dmesg, iwconfig to see if wireless device is actually created. and if not if there is an error.

 

[skittle]

Hello KaseyBarn,

As you said you installed Ubuntu 14.04 so in ubuntu if you want to use the WiFi then you need to installed wireless drivers for ubuntu.
You'll get the Wireless installation steps here

See the above solution, if its not work for you then post here.... we would glad to help you.

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