Wireless card undetected

antho18 · 09-22-2016, 11:34 AM

Hello everybody,

I recently install debian with netinst. I dont install any graphic environment and i want configure my wifi with terminal.

But i have some trouble.

- First, i use lspci to detect my wireless card but it still undetected. I've only my ethernet card.

- Go on windows and my Wifi was disable. No more WiFi indicator and manual button doesn't answer.

- Go check bios, and reset parameter. After that, wifi work on windows.

- Go on Debian and it still undetected and my wifi card was disable on windows like previously.

- So reset BIOS, now i use lspci in grub and i SEE my wifi card.

I dont know what happen when i start debian but it disable my wifi card.

Can you help me please !!
wifi card : BCM4312

frankbell · 09-22-2016, 11:40 AM

Broadcom chips often take a couple of extra steps to set up.

This article should help: https://wiki.debian.org/wl

rokytnji · 09-22-2016, 11:40 AM

This

Should help also in addition to what frankbell posted. Like icing on a cake.

antho18 · 09-22-2016, 12:12 PM

Thx for your answer,

I follow instruction of frankbell. I install package but no wifi card in lspci, no wlan0 anything about my wifi card.
Wifi indicator go down when i launch my Debian. Curious...

Timothy Miller · 09-22-2016, 12:15 PM

Can you post the lspci, specifically lspci -nnk so that it includes a bit more info?

antho18 · 09-22-2016, 01:06 PM

That LSPCI -nnk result :

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 Host Bridge [1002:7910]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) [1002:7912]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:7914]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) [1002:7915]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) [1002:7916]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.1 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.4 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:13.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 14)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270] [1002:791f]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev b6)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30c2]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus

Timothy Miller · 09-22-2016, 01:11 PM

That's weird that it doesn't show up. Is this dual booted with any other OS's that work?

antho18 · 09-22-2016, 04:18 PM

Well, i use windows xp too. If i start debian, wifi would be disable also on windows after a reboot. I need to reset bios parameter to recover wifi access on Windows. But can see my wifi card before booting debian on using lspci, in grub terminal.

Wifi card is disable after booting on Debian...

ardvark71 · 09-22-2016, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by antho18

Wifi card is disable after booting on Debian...

Hello and welcome to the forum

EDIT: Please take a look at ferrari's suggestion below before responding to my questions.

I'd be curious if this problem can be duplicated using another distribution, such as Lubuntu.

Is this a desktop system or laptop? If a laptop, please open a terminal and post the results from this command...

Code:

rfkill list

Regards...

ferrari · 09-22-2016, 06:56 PM

Hi anth018. You mentioned that you were able to re-enable the wireless NIC via the BIOS....

Quote:

- Go on Debian and it still undetected and my wifi card was disable on windows like previously.

- So reset BIOS, now i use lspci in grub and i SEE my wifi card.

I dont know what happen when i start debian but it disable my wifi card.

Can you help me please !!
wifi card : BCM4312

I have seen similar behaviour once with an HP laptop where the windows driver was able to disable the wifi at shutdown, leaving it inaccessible with respect to Linux. After disabling this function in Windows the problem disappeared.

ardvark71 · 09-22-2016, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferrari

After disabling this function in Windows the problem disappeared.

Hi...

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this. What is the name of this setting and where is it located?

Regards...

frankbell · 09-22-2016, 07:49 PM

Is there a hardware switch for the wireless, perhaps a function key? If the wireless works with Windows, that probably isn't the issue, but it might be worth ruling out the possibility that it is somehow getting toggled on and off.

ferrari · 09-22-2016, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Hi...

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this. What is the name of this setting and where is it located?

It was a long time ago so the details are a little bit hazy, (and only related to certain HP laptops) but IIRC it did involve the 'HP Wireless Assistant' similar to what is mentioned here for example

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....6#post10812226

ardvark71 · 09-22-2016, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferrari

It was a long time ago so the details are a little bit hazy, (and only related to certain HP laptops) but IIRC it did involve the 'HP Wireless Assistant' similar to what is mentioned here for example

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....6#post10812226

Thank you!

Regards...

antho18 · 09-23-2016, 09:08 AM

Thx you for your answer, first my computer is a laptop HP6715s.

I take a look at Ferrari answer. So, i'd download 'HP wireless assistant' and i'm able to enable my wifi card on windows if Debian disable it before(not necessary to reset BIOS parameter).

I've a hardware switch on this computer. When i'm booting on debian, wifi is disable after the OS loading and hardware switch doesnt answer.

I install other Linux OS befor like Lubuntu and it work great ! It's my first distrib whitout graphic environnement.

Here is the 'rfkill list' answer :

Quote:

2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
4: hp-gps: GPS
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes