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Wifi on Compaq Mini 110; Linux Mint 10

hi everyone!
I am brand new to linux and i am finding it really frustrating cause i always thought i had quite a knack for computers haha.
ive looked online and searched a bunch of stuff but because im so new to linux i am having a hard time even understand some of the stuff.
i really want to get comfortable/fluent with linux and unix and what not.

my netbook model is HP Compaq Mini 110
the distribution i am using is Linux Mint 10

my broadcom wifi device isnt working or something.

when i first installed mint, it said that i needed non-free drivers?

the ethernet cable instantly gave me connection and i was able to run updates
but the wifi still doesnt work
i think the updates only updated the free ones and not the non-free ones cause i dont remember ever specifying to download the non free ones
how do i manually specify to download all available updates?

i also typed:
$ sudo gedit /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

the output says:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true

oh also when i right click on the little network sign on the bottom right corner, then it says "Wireless Networks device not read (firmware missing)" I dont know what is going on haha

any help is much appreciated!

Can you post the output of ifconfig, iwconfig, and lsmod? And please use code tags.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jason_lee_91 (Post 4304446)

when i first installed mint, it said that i needed non-free drivers?

And, did you install them? If not, connect with a cable and the use the hardware drivers tool to install them. I don't know where to find the tool in Mint, but it should be in your menu.

ahh sorry i didnt realize i should use code tags i will make sure to do that
so here are the outputs
and yes i did install the updates already via update manager with a ethernet cable

Code:

jason@jason-netbook ~ $ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 18:a9:05:a1:a5:1c  

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

          Interrupt:44 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:4320 (4.3 KB)  TX bytes:4320 (4.3 KB)





jason@jason-netbook ~ $ iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



wlan0    IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated  Tx-Power=0 dBm  

          Retry  long limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

          



jason@jason-netbook ~ $ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

binfmt_misc            6599  1 

parport_pc            26058  0 

ppdev                  5556  0 

dm_crypt              11385  0 

snd_hda_codec_idt      54887  1 

snd_hda_intel          22107  2 

snd_hda_codec          87552  2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel

snd_hwdep              5040  1 snd_hda_codec

arc4                    1165  2 

snd_pcm                71475  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec

snd_seq_midi            4588  0 

b43                  168681  0 

snd_rawmidi            17783  1 snd_seq_midi

joydev                  8735  0 

mac80211              231541  1 b43

snd_seq_midi_event      6047  1 snd_seq_midi

snd_seq                47174  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event

hp_wmi                  5191  0 

uvcvideo              55847  0 

snd_timer              19067  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq

snd_seq_device          5744  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq

cfg80211              144470  2 b43,mac80211

snd                    49006  13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

videodev              43098  1 uvcvideo

psmouse                59033  0 

v4l1_compat            13359  2 uvcvideo,videodev

led_class              2633  1 b43

lp                      7342  0 

soundcore                880  1 snd

serio_raw              4022  0 

snd_page_alloc          7120  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

parport                31492  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp

dm_raid45              81721  0 

xor                    15136  1 dm_raid45

btrfs                489451  0 

zlib_deflate          19266  1 btrfs

crc32c                  2531  1 

libcrc32c                887  1 btrfs

i915                  290938  3 

drm_kms_helper        30200  1 i915

drm                  168054  4 i915,drm_kms_helper

ahci                  19013  0 

intel_agp              26360  2 i915

i2c_algo_bit            5168  1 i915

libahci                21667  3 ahci

video                  18712  1 i915

ssb                    39288  1 b43

atl1c                  29949  0 

output                  1883  1 video

agpgart                32011  2 drm,intel_agp

Run the following:

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up

Then check your ifconfig and see if any changes are made.

Besides that, can you post your lspci?

I didn't ask for the updates, I asked if you installed the drivers with the hardware-tool (not the update-manager).

the installing drivers worked
i almost feel silly for not having known that
thanks for your help:)