hi, i am using a hp pavillion entertainment dv2 1030us and am having an issue getting the wifi to work on it. i have installed the sta driver for bcm4322 and it will installed and activated succesfully and say it is working, however no interface will detect. i can enable and disable the wifi icon but no networks ever show up. i have blacklisted a few things as the ubuntu and broadcom websites have showed but no luck. i have used ndiswrapper and installed the .inf and .sys files and it said it was working as well, but no interface was ever detected.

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)


i have blacklisted b43,ssb,wl

the ethernet connection works fine i have been using it. also i don't know if it matters since the ethernet connection works fine but this peppermint ice is installed to usb (laptop hard drive failed and i took it out), just mentioning this because i don't know if it matter or not as in device locations and all that.

lsmod | grep "b43\|ssb\|wl"
wl 1959565 0
lib80211 5058 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl

lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5530 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub



lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0



eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:cc:3a:30:55
inet addr:192.168.1.121 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:ccff:fe3a:3055/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1570 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1531676 (1.5 MB) TX bytes:303632 (303.6 KB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0x4000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:56:39:81:27
inet6 addr: fe80::225:56ff:fe39:8127/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20136 (20.1 KB) TX bytes:20136 (20.1 KB)

thanks to any help, im a little new to linux so bear with me

Check out this link: http://wiki.debian.org/wl?highlight=(broadcom)|(wl)

Assuming that you are running Ubuntu, or some other Debian based distro, those steps will work. The STA (or wl) driver from Broadcom can be a little finicky at times. Users of the b43 driver sometimes report ONLY being able to connect encrypted access points, while users of the STA driver sometimes report sudden disconnection (signal drop) among other problems. Also, the STA driver has two known bugs.

The first one makes the system call the device eth1, making it seem like a wired network adapter when it's really a wireless device. The second bug messes up iwconfig and related utilities so that they need to run as root for the device to even show up. This means that programs like Conky can't tell you what access point you're connected to unless run as root (which is dangerous with Conky). The only non-root way to use a Broadcom card that works consistently is to use NetworkManager.

Personally, if you can afford it, you should get another wireless card. (just my honest opinion)