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Old 12-10-2010, 09:34 PM   #16
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@coexistance - I actually figured he would just paste the output into a response or type out the bit in brackets.


Stupid broadcom chips! meh! LOL

HTH
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Old 12-10-2010, 09:40 PM   #17
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Oh well...my bad, sorry.
Was just trying to help.

musky123

You have to do the command with the brackets "[" "]",
I tough you had understood what AsusDave pointed.

Anyway do:

- Hotkey combination CTRL+ALT+T

- spci - vnn | grep [14e4] > wireless.txt

Note: As you see is the brackets "[" "]" missing, just that.

- Open the file wireless.txt

- Now copy all the text and post it here.

Everyone makes mistakes, do not worry.

Hope you have better luck now!

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Old 12-10-2010, 09:42 PM   #18
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chris@chris-Lenovo ~ $ lspci - vnn | grep 14e4
Usage: lspci [<switches>]

Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree

Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv for very verbose)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers

Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS

Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only devices with specified ID's

Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)

PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read PCI configuration dump from a given file
chris@chris-Lenovo ~ $
 
Old 12-11-2010, 08:12 AM   #19
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@coexistance - No bubbles, no troubles guy, help is always cool.

@musky - make sure there is no space between the - and the vnn

You are getting closer. Soon we wil have you up and running.

HTH
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:06 AM   #20
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so you want me to put this in terminal


spci - vnn | grep [14e4]

heres what i get


$ spci - vnn | grep [14e4] > wireless.txt
No command 'spci' found, did you mean:
Command 'sci' from package 'scheme2c' (universe)
Command 'spc' from package 'supercat' (universe)
Command 'lspci' from package 'pciutils' (main)
spci: command not found

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Old 12-11-2010, 10:10 AM   #21
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The command is as follows

lspci -vnn | grep 14e4

the spci was a typo I'm sure.

HTH
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Old 12-11-2010, 10:37 AM   #22
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ok here it is thanks


chris@chris-Lenovo ~ $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1713] (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:04b5]
chris@chris-Lenovo ~ $
 
Old 12-11-2010, 10:49 AM   #23
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Awesome,
You should be able to use the following link to get you going. It will take you to the section that assumes you have a some Internet access (wired) but the no Internet access instructions are right below it.

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

I actually refuse to use Linux Mint so I don't know for sure, but since it is an offshoot from Ubuntu, the instructions there should work fine.

HTH
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Old 12-11-2010, 11:25 AM   #24
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thankyou but im not sure where to even start?
 
Old 12-11-2010, 11:34 AM   #25
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thankyou but im not sure where to even start?
Just do what that tutorial above says step-by-step.

For example, it says step 1 is to run the command "sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter", which will install the "b43-fwcutter" package. Note that the command requires an internet connection to download the package.

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Old 12-11-2010, 11:59 AM   #26
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Just do what that tutorial above says step-by-step.

For example, it says step 1 is to run the command "sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter", which will install the "b43-fwcutter" package. Note that the command requires an internet connection to download the package.
when i cp that in terminal all i get is

password for chris:
 
Old 12-11-2010, 12:05 PM   #27
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So, type in the password for chris.
 
Old 12-11-2010, 01:36 PM   #28
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So, type in the password for chris.

ok off subject for 1 minute please i download some serch thing from tools i think know i got this annouing serch box in the middle of my desktop is there a way to get rid of it.
 
Old 12-11-2010, 02:04 PM   #29
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ok off subject for 1 minute please i download some serch thing from tools i think know i got this annouing serch box in the middle of my desktop is there a way to get rid of it.
I don't understand, could you please write it a little more clearly and give more details?
 
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Old 12-11-2010, 02:29 PM   #30
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its just a serch box that pops up but i found if i hit enter it goes away?to get back to the wireless i downloaded the driver and it was no good so i had to go back to oringal one still wont work..does linuk always have problems running wireless xp no issues at all.so still wireless disconnected?

in additional drivers i got 2 broadcom b43 wireless and broadcom sta wireless ..the sta will read wireless it just wont let me connect and the b43 wont even detect that there is a wireless ?

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