On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:47 PM, pavithran s <pavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 October 2014 11:32, jayant ogale <jaog...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: >> i have tried many live distros. but in all distros i could not get wi-fi >> connectivity. >> in all distros, only wired broadband connectivity was possible. >> do you know any live distro with auto detectable wi-fi connectivity? >> thanks, > > Wow what a strange question ? All the distro's these days will support > Wireless :P > Anyways the problem here might be your wireless card , I am guessing > its a laptop which is misbehaving. > as harish said the card name can be found with the lspci command.
+1. Last year I bought a Lenovo U310 ultrabook. I tried Live sessions with Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE, every device, wired, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB3, , display with power management, and touch screen worked without any tinkering. > Try some latest ubuntu / mint it should work by default , I am > guessing yours is a very new card . Well its all up to guesses untill > you tell what it it. > Sometimes, installing the firmware for the Wi-Fi card does the trick. Check the *firmware* package names for the distro. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
