"UNCLAIMED" significa que não há drivers conectados ao seu cartão. Como não há drivers conectados ao seu cartão, o Wi-Fi não funcionará.
Tente esta solução, ela está marcada como resolvida, por isso deve funcionar para você: link
Meu disco rígido travou e estava rodando o Win8, então instalei o Ubuntu 12.4 no meu disco rígido. Eu posso conectar a conexão com fio, mas sem fio. Eu verifiquei os drivers e eles parecem bons. Alguém pode me dizer o que eu estou sentindo falta aqui?
damulag@damulag-Satellite-S55-A:~$ sudo lshw -class network
[sudo] password for damulag:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c2400000-c2403fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 54:be:f7:49:db:2b
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx driverversion=1.2.3 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.6 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:18 memory:c1000000-c103ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
damulag@damulag-Satellite-S55-A:~$ ifconfig eth0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted
damulag@damulag-Satellite-S55-A:~$ sudo lshw -class network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c2400000-c2403fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 54:be:f7:49:db:2b
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx driverversion=1.2.3 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.6 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:18 memory:c1000000-c103ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
damulag@damulag-Satellite-S55-A:~$