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I have just loaded linux mint 17.1 rebecca into my older laptop HP zd8007ea, all went well but it will not load driver for my wifi adapter, I get the message DRIVER CANNOT BE INSTALLED connect to internet or insert cd, when I look in driver manager it is empty but for this message
I have done both of these things but still get the same message.
Post the output of the lspci command. The information from the linlap site indicates that your wireless adapter is a broadcom 4306. Looks like the driver depends on the revision level.
I have tried to get wifi working with no luck. so I tried Ubuntu Yakkity but it would not load, then I found one called Pinguy this loaded and yhe wifi is working fine, it does seem to me to be a older linux, has anyone used this os
I have tried to get wifi working with no luck. so I tried Ubuntu Yakkity but it would not load, then I found one called Pinguy this loaded and yhe wifi is working fine, it does seem to me to be a older linux, has anyone used this os
I am not using MINT right now, but did for several months and had no issues with WIFI. It may be your specific hardware and MINT that combine to be the problem, but you have not provided the information it would require to research that question.
And maybe some others depending on how off the beaten trail your wifi device roams. Some firmware's might need other sources, or a git from kernel.org for firmware depending on how bleeding edge your hardware happens to be.
Not sure why debian testing doesn't let the user do dmesg, but easy enough to work around I guess. Seems to play in /dev/kmsg land with root:root perms. Seems to be a kernel 4.8+ design choice. With /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict to override the choice. *sigh*
In the case of this chipset on this laptop it needs a special quirk "ant_sel=2" as a module parameter. It has two connections for an antennae and only ONE of them is connected (not the default one).
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