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Old 07-19-2018, 03:55 PM   #1
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Question How to config wireless on Bodhi 4.5.0 .


Hello
How to config wireless on
Bodhi 4.5.0 .

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Old 07-19-2018, 07:08 PM   #2
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If you open the quick start guide there are pictures explaining how.

tl/dr is click the icon in the lower right hand corner and select a network to connect to.
 
Old 07-20-2018, 08:58 AM   #3
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Hello Jeff,
I clicked the icon in the lower right hand corner, but no wireless network appeared.
Sounds the built in wireless card in this laptop is not detected.
I use Dell Inspiron 1150 , don't know the built in wireless card. some one said " Dell likes Broadcom."
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:59 AM   #4
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How to config wireless on Bodhi 4.5.0 .

Put the outcome of lsusb and lspci commands please.
 
Old 07-20-2018, 10:35 AM   #5
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lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 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 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

2)lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller

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Old 07-20-2018, 02:35 PM   #6
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The wireless card is there but I miss the pci-id for it to search the database.
Code:
lspci -nnk | grep -A2 0280
will show just a bit more info. I think you might only miss a piece of firmware, easily to solve.
 
Old 07-20-2018, 04:35 PM   #7
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Hello Charles,

Please see below:
martin@martin-Inspiron-1150:~$ lspci -nnk |grep -A2 0280
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0003]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

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Old 07-20-2018, 06:29 PM   #8
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Your wireless device requires closed source drivers. You'll need to install the broadcom drivers.

Been awhile since I've owned this hardware myself, but any guide you find for Ubuntu 16.04 will apply to Bodhi 4.5
 
Old 07-21-2018, 01:31 AM   #9
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While being online you need to run this:
Code:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall firmware-b43-installer
That should do the trick.
 
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Old 07-21-2018, 09:17 AM   #10
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Wireless works !

Hi Charles and Jeff and all the other helpers.
It works. Thanks a million !
Before I tries Puppy linux, but failed to get it work after long troubleshooting.
So I gave up Puppy linux and try Bodhi linux, So happy the wireless on Bodhi works!
It's relly beauful. !

Martin
Thanks!
 
Old 10-08-2020, 03:25 PM   #11
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Thumbs up Thank you, helped me with Dell Inpiron 1210

Exactly same issue with Broadcom card. Once I installed the driver update it worked.
 
  


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