Not recognizing my wireless connection

notoMS · 01-04-2015, 01:54 AM

The KDE desktop does not seem to recognize my wireless card - it doesn't show any connections. But, I don't necessarily think this is a Slackware issue. I have the Slax Linux distribution on a USB thumb drive. It uses the KDE desktop too, and it doesn't find my wireless connection, either. So, either there's a conflict with KDE recognizing my wireless card, or I'm not doing something correctly.

Here's the output of /sbin/lspci:

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 05)
7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 05)
7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 05)
7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 05)
7f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)
7f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)

Does anyone have any suggestions?

bassmadrigal · 01-04-2015, 02:08 AM

You should just need the broadcom-sta package that contains the proprietary kernel driver for your device. There's a slackbuild for it.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.../broadcom-sta/

Better yet, if you have sbopkg, you can simply install it through there. If not, just download all those files to a directory and then, as root, run broadcom-sta.SlackBuild and install the resulting package. There is also a recommendation to block some other broadcom modules to prevent issues. See the README for more info (the README is displayed directly on the slackbuild page for your convenience).

EDIT: There's also more info on the topic on the slack wiki.
http://www.slackwiki.com/Broadcom_Wireless

j_v · 01-06-2015, 08:09 PM

This is meant to be in addition to bassmadrigal's post, not to supercede it. Alien BOB's wiki, http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...eless_networks, on setting up networking and wireless was a saving grace for me when I set up a wireless connection for the first time.