Peppermint5 sees no wifi networks, no internet connection

Timmi · 08-04-2014, 05:03 PM

hey guys, I'm trying out the new Peppermint5.

in the Live it doesn't show any available networks when wish to connect to the internet via WiFi.
I create a new connection, enter the credentials, and it finds nothing.

The laptop I'm typing this message on sees over a dozen available wifi networks within range.

I understand that some Live Linuxes don't give you wifi in the Live version... so I decided to intall it.

After install, it remembers the wifi network profile I created (I see the SSID and password is still saved), but under the networks icon, in the taskbar (panel), like before, no available networks or wifi.

I searched through Peppermint's menus, hoping to find something that allows to enable wifi perhaps (memories of Puppy a decade ago), in setup, preferences, network, basically anything that is there, but found nothing in those menus to resolve the situation.

I don't know if this is just a bug in the new release, or if I just don't know where to look. I'm volunteering my time to help my neighbor get his old laptop up and running again, and now I worry a little bit that it might be too complex for him. (he is really non-technical).
BTW, that laptop's WiFi DID work with WinXP, Win7, and I got it to work really really really easily with Bodhi: so I am certain that there are no problems with the wifi.

Would anyone know what to do to get PeepermintOS5 to work with internet? Thanks

frankbell · 08-04-2014, 08:42 PM

What type of wireless chipset is in the computer? That information is essential to further troubleshooting. (Running the command lspci (list pci hardware) in a terminal should provide that information, so long as you are not using some type of USB wireless adapter.)

Post the relevant part of the output of the lspci command here; for readability, please surround it with "code" tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button to the right of the "Quick Reply" button beneath the compose message window.

rokytnji · 08-04-2014, 09:11 PM

Peppermint seems to have the

Code:

inxi -Fxxx

command to supply the info needed for forum members to answer your questions. So a inxi report may help your cause out.

Code:

rfkill list

also seems to be in the peppermint install .

Code:

lspci -vnn

also seems to be in peppermint linux.

NGIB · 08-05-2014, 05:52 AM

Peppermint is still a Buntu based distro and WiFi has been a very spotty issue (for me) with any 14.04 based distro I've tried. Very sensitive to the type of WiFi hardware and there are a ton of pages on Google about it...

Timmi · 08-05-2014, 09:35 AM

Here you go - lspci -vnn listing (running it in Bodhi now)

Code:

[14e4:4315] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: ssb

xxxx@bodhi32-Dell-Inspiron-1545:~$
        I/O ports at 6ea0 [size=32]
        Memory at fed1c800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8

086:2930] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
        Memory at f6afbf00 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        I/O ports at 1100 [size=32]
        Kernel modules: i2c-i801
xxxx@bodhi32-Dell-Inspiron-1545:~$
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

I am not sure what version of ubuntu the latest Bodhi is based on but wifi works intuitively as you can see.

jefro · 08-11-2014, 02:25 PM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx This page may help if it is a ubuntu based system.