Toshiba laptop satellite-c850 wired connection driver issue

We have faced internet connection issues with Toshiba laptops(Basically tried with the model C-850). This is due to the driver issue for both wired connection and wireless. The following article explains how to solve the wired connection driver issue with Toshiba satellite C-850 laptops.

You can download the driver from the below mentioned link

http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.5/compat-wi…

Steps to do:

1. Open a terminal and get the driver downloaded by typing the following command.
   wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.5/compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2
2. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential
3. Now extract the tar file which was downloaded:
   tar -xf compat-wireless-3.5.4-1-snpc.tar.bz2
4. Now follow the below mentioned commands
   
cd compat-wireless-3.5.4-1-snpc
./scripts/driver-select alx
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe alx
5. Now reboot the system.

Hope your issue with the wired connection has been solved by this.