Cannot get Wifi working
I am only able to connect with a wired connection.
I did the lspci and lshw and I have a BCM43 network card. I did a "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source lspci -nnk shows: Broadcom Inc BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN Kernel modules: ssb, wl When I try to setup the wifi using network connections I used wlan0 as the device. Is that correct? Any help would be appreciated. |
Hello
Maybe you need to have kernel headers installed. Can you post the terminal outcome here when you try installing the package? S |
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If you meant the install of kernel-source, here it is:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: bcmwl-kernel-source 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,518 kB of archives. After this operation, 7,179 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package bcmwl-kernel-source. (Reading database ... 146762 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb ... Unpacking bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ... Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files... Building for 4.9.0-6-686 Building for architecture i686 Building initial module for 4.9.0-6-686 Done. wl: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-686/updates/dkms/ depmod....... DKMS: install completed. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.7) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-686 |
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lshw -C network |
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This is my output of lshw -C network *-network UNCLAIMED description: Network controller product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:d6000000-d6003fff *-network description: Ethernet interface product: PRO/100 VE Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 8 bus info: pci@0000:05:08.0 logical name: enp5s8 version: 02 serial: 00:16:36:ef:8d:11 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s |
i have found a couple places that say the same thing. the first link below is much more detailed and recently updated. i wanted to add the second for completeness and to show the first should work.
the overall gist is that you need to purge bcmwl-kernel-source: Quote:
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sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer Quote:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....9#post13181379 |
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Thank you very much. I had done the kernel-source remove/delete before but I did not know about the modprobe: sudo modprobe -r b43 sudo modprobe b43 sudo rfkill unblock all I had to apt-get install rfkill, because it wasn't installed, but after that it worked. Here is my lshw -C network output now: *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 01 serial: 00:1a:73:1f:c9:de width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless Many thanks. Regards Phillip |
i'm glad to hear you are up and running. i had to play with modprobe a little in debian to get my wifi going. looks like you got that wlan0 back after all :) if you have the chance and inclination to mark the thread as solved, that might help others who wander in with a similar issue.
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