I am playing around with an older HP Pavilion laptop with AMD 64 Athlon processor and I installed Mint Linux on it, but I can't get wifi driver to be recognized. I must use Ethernet cable to work on-line with it, can anyone offer any advice?

It did have windows xp running on it and I removed it.

Specs -


HP Pavilion Notebook PC (ZV6005US)

Part Number: ZV6005us

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General

Packaged Quantity
1
Wireless capabilities
802.11b, 802.11g
Notebook type
Desktop replacement (7.5 + lbs.)
Screen type
Wide-screen, High-gloss/Anti-glare screen
Manufacturer
HP

Processor / Chipset

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ / 2 GHz
Cache
L2 - 512 KB
64-bit Computing
Yes

Cache Memory

Type
L2 cache
Installed Size
512 KB

Memory

Max Supported Size
2 GB
Technology
DDR SDRAM
Speed
333 MHz / PC2700
Slots Qty
2

RAM

Memory Speed
333 MHz
Memory Specification Compliance
PC2700
Configuration Features
2 x 256 MB
Technology
DDR SDRAM
Installed Size
512 MB

Storage

Optical Drive
DVD±RW (+R DL)
Type
none
Type
portable

You need help with wireless and the only information you did not provide is the information regarding your wireless hardware. How discouraging for potential helpers.

I tried to do a search for drivers within the operating system itself and thought for sure Mint Linux would auto detect it. I looked up specs online and still do not know. I forgot what the command it is to do a mod probe . Thanks for your help and advice.

or should provide the needed information

Hello RockDoctor, thanks for your advice, here is what I got with this command:

~ $ inxi -n
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
driver: b43-pci-bridge
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
driver: 8139too
IF: enp3s6 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 00:0f:b0:c0:4d:4a

and I got this -

~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS480/RS482/RS485 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC4xx/RS4xx PCI Bridge [int gfx]
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC4xx/RS4xx PCI Express Port 1
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.6 Modem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS480M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200]
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
03:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
03:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
03:04.4 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)

Hello RockDoctor - it appears I have this wifi card on this device - a Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller, where and how can I install this driver using Mint Linux 18.2, everything else works great, the sound, DVD player, volume, etc, but when I installed with iso dvd it would not install wifi driver automatically.

I got the laptop from a friend who gave it to me for free, she had WindowsXP on it and her browers could not be updated without upgraded her operating system. She could only do minimal browsing and could retrieve email so wifi was working.

She bought a mac laptop and did not want this laptop.

HP Pavilion AMD 64 Athlon, ATi Graphics, originally loaded with Windows XP.

Thanks for any advice you may offer.

when I did try to run update driver within Mint Linux 18.2 I got this message when I was trying to find a way to originally load/find a wifi driver before posting this thread, Unknown, this device is using an alternative driver amd64microcode Version 2.201603316.6.

lspci -nn -d 14e4:
03:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

Here is a real specific definition of this wifi card.

This thread in the Linux Mint forums seems to address the issue. My Linux Mint (17.3)-running Dell netbook uses the Broadcom 4312 chip, and I don't recall having to do any real messing around to enable wireless. However, I may have enabled the Ubuntu repos, as it does appear that my bcmwl-kernel-source and linux-firmware files came from the Ubuntu repo.

I followed it to a "T" (I think) and it did not work for me.

stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $ sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for stah:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'bcmwl-kernel-source' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 277 not upgraded.
stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya InRelease
Hit:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya Release
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [632 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [604 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [537 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [513 kB]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 2,593 kB in 5s (455 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $ sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-firmware-nonfree
stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $

Interesting. I don't have linux-firmware-nonfree installed; only linux-firmware.

Any other advice you can offer RockDoctor?

I tried this - sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
[sudo] password for sam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter
The following NEW packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 277 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 158 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 b43-fwcutter amd64 1:019-2 [23.3 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 firmware-b43-installer all 1:019-2 [4,120 B]
Fetched 27.4 kB in 0s (43.3 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package b43-fwcutter.
(Reading database ... 199604 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a019-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking b43-fwcutter (1:019-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-installer.
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-b43-installer_1%3a019-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-b43-installer (1:019-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:019-2) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:019-2) ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
--2017-09-23 09:05:14-- http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware...00.138.tar.bz2
Resolving www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)... 173.254.28.119
Connecting to www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)|173.254.28.119|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13514651 (13M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’

broadcom-wl-5.100.1 100%[===================>] 12.89M 2.74MB/s in 5.0s

2017-09-23 09:05:19 (2.57 MB/s) - ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’ saved [13514651/13514651]

Deleting old extracted firmware...
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_ap.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_sta.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/README
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wlconfig_lx_shared
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl.mk
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl_default
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl_hnd
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wlconfig_nomimo
This file is recognised as:
filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 666.2
MD5 : e1b05e268bcdbfef3560c28fc161f30e
Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0bsinitvals25.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals25.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals17.fw
Extracting b43/ucode17_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_lp.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1initvals27.fw
Extracting b43/lp2bsinitvals19.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn3bsinitvals21.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_sslpn.fw
ucode time: 01:15:07
Extracting b43/ucode25_lcn.fw
Extracting b43/ucode21_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/ucode20_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/lp1initvals20.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp2initvals19.fw
Extracting b43/n2bsinitvals19.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn4bsinitvals22.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_sslpn_nobt.fw
ucode date: 2011-02-23
Extracting b43/n1bsinitvals20.fw
Extracting b43/n1initvals20.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode22_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/ht0initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ucode33_lcn40.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1bsinitvals20.fw
Extracting b43/lcn400bsinitvals33.fw
Extracting b43/ucode14.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/lp1bsinitvals22.fw
Extracting b43/n16initvals30.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals25.fw
Extracting b43/lcn400initvals33.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals24.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals22.fw
Extracting b43/n18initvals32.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/ucode21_sslpn_nobt.fw
ucode time: 01:15:07
Extracting b43/ucode26_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/n2initvals19.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn3initvals21.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn4initvals22.fw
Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode22_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/ucode9.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2initvals25.fw
Extracting b43/lp1initvals22.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1bsinitvals27.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/ucode32_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/n18bsinitvals32.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals25.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode24_lcn.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals17.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode20_sslpn_nobt.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp1bsinitvals20.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn2initvals19.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals24.fw
Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2bsinitvals24.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/ucode19_sslpn_nobt.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ht0initvals29.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2bsinitvals25.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/ucode29_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0bsinitvals24.fw
Extracting b43/ucode19_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1initvals25.fw
Extracting b43/ucode30_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/n16bsinitvals30.fw
Extracting b43/ucode25_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/ucode24_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/ucode27_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ht0bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn2bsinitvals19.fw
Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0initvals25.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1initvals20.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals22.fw
Extracting b43/ht0bsinitvals29.fw
stan@stan-Pavilion-ZV6100-EC356UA-ABA ~ $

Hey RockDoctor - Get Ready - viola nice ring - I got er working, wifi works like a charm. thanks for your help...!!!!!


The above sudo command did it.

Thanks again for your great help...., your the best.

I'm actually using wifi only on a good ole HP Pavilion PC.

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

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