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Hoffmann 10-01-2013 12:37 PM

[SOLVED] CMD, wifi connect problem, wlan card not shown
 
MacBook Pro 2010
Running ubuntu minimal 13.04

I want to connect my laptop to wifi,

but, wlan card is not shown:

iwconfig

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Although:

lspci -vvnn

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:008d]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at d3200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

How do I connect to wifi?

joseph.trout 10-03-2013 09:41 AM

What does
ifconfig -a
produce for you?
if it shows a wireless interface it may be as simple as
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Hoffmann 10-03-2013 04:02 PM

Problem was with the drivers for my network controller.

Solution: install drivers for bcm43xx

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...ernet%20access


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