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I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 3521 with Windows 8 pre-installed, and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it.

The wireless is not working on it. I have tried a lot of methods available at the forums, but none seem to work.

I first tried by installing the Broadcom STA wireless driver. When that didn't work, I followed some steps given on a forum to remove it and install b43 firmware instead. That didn't help either.

Here are the relevant terminal outputs

sudo lshw -C network

  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 74:86:7a:20:2d:48
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/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 autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=10.201.136.155 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:c0404000-c0404fff memory:c0400000-c0403fff

  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       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:c0500000-c057ffff memory:afb00000-afb0ffff

and the output for

lspci -nn | grep 0280

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:0036] (rev 01)

I have tried doing

sudo modprobe ath9k

and

sudo modprobe b43

without success.

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Your wireless device is covered in the driver ath9k but only in kernels 3.8 and later. Please see here: How to install Qualcomm Atheros AR9565 wireless drivers? You could update your 12.04 to 12.04.3 LTS which uses the 3.8.0-xx kernel or reinstall Ubuntu 13.04. You could certainly also compile the compat-wireless linked here.

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