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Old 12-06-2014, 10:48 AM   #1
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No Ethernet or Wireless after Deepin install


Linux newbie here. I have just installed Deepin on a Dell Precision m-90. 80 G hardrive, 3 gigs ram. Since the install I have no network capabilities. I connected ethernet and the control panel is set to auto connect but states "no connection" Also wireless card does not show up.
Checked setup and it states wireless card is enabled, however when using the FN F2 to enable the wireless card will not show up as enabled. Reset bios defaults.
I tried several terminal commands like "lshw and rfkill" but anything I try it states it is not installed. Of course when I try to download any packages it fails sue to lack of connection. It seems I cannot run the simplest of commands because many are not installed and of course I cannot install them. Any help would be appreciated.
I don't know the chipset but it is a dell wiireless 1390 wlan mini card. Broadcom

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Old 12-07-2014, 04:18 AM   #2
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The commands you want the output of (as root) are:

lspci
lsusb

You may need to put 'sudo' in front of each of those. If you still get this, reinstall, because it sounds like you didn't finish the install. It should install, and then set up.
 
Old 12-10-2014, 02:10 AM   #3
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This a NIC driver issue, please execute the following command in terminal:
nmcli dev
nm-tool
rfkill list all
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -vvnn | grep -i net

if your problem has been solved by the above operation, please execute the command

sudo apt-get install deepin-bug-reporter
sudo -E deepin-bug-reporter

in terminal and then reply us the report file.
 
Old 12-17-2014, 09:44 AM   #4
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broadcom wireless

Thanks for all your help. I was still not able to get the wireless card working. Also I noticed that Fedora has brought my system to a crawl. It has never ran so slow. I then downloaded linux-mint 17.1. The machine runs much faster. I still cannot get the broadcom wireless working however I did find a Cisco wireless usb card and it recognized it right away. I would still like to get my internal wireless working.
 
Old 12-18-2014, 02:53 AM   #5
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Have you gone to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

and followed instructions? you need firmware, which has to be extracted, etc.
 
Old 12-18-2014, 08:30 AM   #6
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Yes I have gone through that whole process. I'm not sure what to do after that though. I look in driver manager and see nothing related to the wireless card. There must be something else I need to do.

tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01cf]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
Memory at ecef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at ecffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl

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Old 12-18-2014, 10:37 AM   #7
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0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: wl
You should have b43 for that. Check to see if it is blacklisted

Code:
 grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Then, follow the link in post #5
 
Old 12-18-2014, 11:02 PM   #8
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Okay this is what I got:

tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
grep: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: No such file or directory
tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
[sudo] password for tolkon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $
 
Old 12-19-2014, 03:36 AM   #9
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OK, you have the b43-fwcutter tool installed, and b43 is not blacklisted. Did you try an install with ndiswrapper?

You seem to be on a debian-based package manager. This link may help
https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43_and_b43legacy
 
Old 12-19-2014, 09:10 AM   #10
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I did not know that Linux Mint was Debian based? Here is what I get.

tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
No command 'deb' found, did you mean:
Command 'dab' from package 'bsdgames' (universe)
Command 'deb3' from package 'quilt' (main)
Command 'xdeb' from package 'xdeb' (universe)
Command 'dwb' from package 'dwb' (universe)
Command 'debc' from package 'devscripts' (main)
Command 'debi' from package 'devscripts' (main)
Command 'derb' from package 'icu-devtools' (main)
deb: command not found
 
Old 12-19-2014, 10:39 AM   #11
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I see.
Anything with apt-get etc is inclined to be debian based originally (just guessing here).
Obviously the command deb doesn't exist on your system. you may not need to configure for non free.
 
Old 12-19-2014, 11:38 AM   #12
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Well this is what has happened every time I have installed Linux. Fedora was the only distro that recognized my wireless card but it brought my system to a crawl. I am happy with Mint except for this. What should be my next course of action?
Thanks for your help.
 
Old 12-20-2014, 03:09 AM   #13
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What should be my next course of action?
It would be nice if the thing sat up first time. It didn't. Get the finger out and MAKE it work. Try this commend
Code:
which b43-fwcutter
If you have it, good. If you don't download & make it. Go carefully & slowly through the wireless.kernel.org link I gave you a few posts ago. By the end it will be working.
 
Old 12-21-2014, 09:36 PM   #14
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Well I'm not sure what was supposed to happen. Here is the result"
tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ which b43-fwcutter
/usr/bin/b43-fwcutter
tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $ which b43-fwcutter
/usr/bin/b43-fwcutter
tolkon@tolkon-Precision-M90 ~ $
 
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Right. You have that b43-fwcutter installed. Back to wireless.kernel.org, and start following instructions where it says
Quote:
After installing b43-fwcutter, download version 5.100.138 of Broadcom's proprietary driver and extract the firmware from it:
 
  


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