Wireless not working, no driver showing in the Additional Drivers window

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Published on 2013-10-13T03:32:36Z Indexed on 2013/10/31 22:18 UTC
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I am a new user of Ubuntu. I have a Asus Q501L laptop that came preinstalled with Windows 8, but I wanted to move from Windows and try something new, so I just decided to install Ubuntu without thinking to much about it.

The problem I have is that I can't install the additional drivers. When I go to to Additional Drivers nothing appears, it just says: no proprietary drivers are in use and in small letters continues: a proprietary driver has private code that Ubuntu developers can't review and improve. security and others updates are dependent on drivers vendor..

I can't even use the wireless connection. I really don't know what to do. I tried to download the drivers from Asus, but when I tried to install them it said: an error occurred while loading the archive.

Also I don't know the model of the PC wireless card. If there is something I can do to find out that please tell me. Thanks!

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