In some laptops like HP Probook 450 G1, Asus TP300LD, the inbuilt wireless network driver is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn. After installing any version of Ubuntu, the WiFi list as well as 'Enable WiFi' option in the network list will not appear in such devices. Hence, we gotta go through following steps to get that working!
So there you go! Neither you should restart your machine, nor any extra application needed to get the WiFi adapter working!
- Firstly, confirm that your wireless network adapter is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn. To do so, open the Terminal(CTRL+ALT+T) and type:
sudo lshw -C network
There you can see under '*-network':
description: Wireless interface
product: MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter - After you confirm that your wireless network adapter is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn, carry on following codes:
sudo apt-get install git build-essential git clone https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E.git cd MT7630E/ chmod +x install test uninstall sudo ./install
So there you go! Neither you should restart your machine, nor any extra application needed to get the WiFi adapter working!