I have got an older notebook from work for my study. In the university there is only WIFI / WLAN. I have installed LinuxMint 32 Bit. I have spent more than 15 hours to fix my problem ...
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lspci | grep 43
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
I have read, taht the b43 module would be the best and becaue I could not get to work with ndiswrapper under debian with same laptop, I decied i wanted to use b43.
The Link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#b43_-_Internet_access is one of the best I found to this topic.
1.Step
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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter ist schon die neueste Version.
firmware-b43-installer ist schon die neueste Version.
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 13 nicht aktualisiert.
both packed are installed...
2.Step
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Under the desktop menu System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers, the b43 drivers can be activated for use.
Please Look the attachement, but I can only select my internal modem to install a driver, there is no wireless card.
The next point is, that while installting there has been problems with the rights to /lib/firmware/b43. After I changed the rights to the following. It looks like the brcm folder and any else in this folder firmware.
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-05-23 19:31 b43
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-10-12 16:28 bnx2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-10-12 16:28 bnx2x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165768 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163000 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1-5.2.13.0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162800 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1-5.2.7.0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192400 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205512 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1h-5.2.13.0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205488 2011-08-23 15:22 bnx2x-e1h-5.2.7.0.fw
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-10-12 16:28 brcm
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After a restart or networking restart I dected that
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rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
the hard blocked of phy0 was no (which was a great, I worked for hours to find the problem). But I cound not find any driver in the addintional driver for this wifi card.
- addionaldrivers
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In the networkmanager i wanted to enable the wifi, but I can't. The switch does not hold postion on.
Just for look up the effects I tried the flymode (I'll hope this the correct english word for this, in german: "Fulgzeugmodus"). Since then I can not switch the flymode of and
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rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
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The two wifi LEDs has never been blinking or something else.
The wifi-switch has only this effect
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rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
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Some conf files and more infos
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/eduroam.conf
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ifconfig -a
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:a5:64:XX:XX
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)
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ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
Before some ask: In the BIOS I cound not found any wifi options. But such a small BIOS-Interface I have never seen before.
I hope my english is good enough for understanding and the information is waht you need, else or if you have tipps or question please wirte.
8n and
Thank you for any help.
Mars
