First off, I am fairly new to Ubuntu. Anyway.
I very recently bought a laptop that comes with a FreeDOS, and a disk containing drivers.
Installation of Ubuntu was fine. However, I think many important drivers are not installed. For example, I can't even connect to wifi, it detects nothing. When I also looked up the "graphics" of my laptop, it says unknown, although it has AMD Radeon HD 7670M.
Then I tried to use the disk that supposedly contains the drivers. However it does not work, and when I try to manually run the "CDsetup.exe", a window appears where it seems to be reading the .exe file as an archive, then an error message appears(I can't really paste the error message here, I am only using my phone which is my only way to the internet right now.:()
I think the laptop salesman told me that the disk works only(?) for windows, and true enough, there's a "windows7" folder in the disk. He wasn't sure if the disk works for Ubuntu.
Do you think that's the problem? And if so, how do I install the drivers when I can't even connect to the net?
Advanced thanks to anyone who answers!!! Your help is GREATLY appreciated.:)
Edit:
Here are the results of what Mr. Web-E told me to type in the terminal.
When I type "lspci":
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series]
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0037 (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
When I typed "sudo lshw -c network":
soren@soren-CX41-1AC:~$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Atheros Communications Inc.
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7c00000-f7c7ffff memory:f7c80000-f7c8ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: 8c:89:a5:03:d8:97
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff
When I typed "rfkill list all"
Nothing happens. :(
