Broadcom BCM4311 wifi adapter disabled by boot to mint14
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:04 pm
Hello
I am very new to linux and need some help please. Yesterday I installed mint 14 on my compaq laptop as a dual boot with the Vista that was already there. Seemed to work OK except when I boot to mint the wireless adapter does not get turned on. The wireless adapter switch is in the on position but the light stays red (red indicates it is off). When I boot to Vista the adapter light turns blue (for on) and I get wireless connection to the internet. The adapter also works fine when I boot to Partition Magic from a usb flash drive. I can't find anything relevant in the BIOS settings.
Any help would be appreciated.
Below is output of several programs that showed up most often as diagnostics in the topics I have searched thru.
I am very new to linux and need some help please. Yesterday I installed mint 14 on my compaq laptop as a dual boot with the Vista that was already there. Seemed to work OK except when I boot to mint the wireless adapter does not get turned on. The wireless adapter switch is in the on position but the light stays red (red indicates it is off). When I boot to Vista the adapter light turns blue (for on) and I get wireless connection to the internet. The adapter also works fine when I boot to Partition Magic from a usb flash drive. I can't find anything relevant in the BIOS settings.
Any help would be appreciated.
Below is output of several programs that showed up most often as diagnostics in the topics I have searched thru.
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When I boot to mint, I get this "notification" in the lower right corner of the screen
"Network Disconnected - you are working offline now"
ldp@ldp-Presario-F500-GF593UA-ABA ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (rev 02)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:24:6b:bf:3a
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)
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for ldp:
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
ldp@ldp-Presario-F500-GF593UA-ABA ~ $ rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
ldp@ldp-Presario-F500-GF593UA-ABA ~ $ sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:20 memory:b8000000-b8003fff
