Wifi not working in mint13 but is in mint10 [SOLVED]

[markj42]

Hi
Im a relative newbie though I have been using mint10 for a couple of years and love it. I decided to upgrade to mint13 Cinnamon because I am no longer recieving updates and followed clem's howto guide with great success apart from my wifi no longer working. Because Im a little paranoid I dualbooted 13 and kept 10 on my laptop in case of just such an issue (Thank you whoever for making that so easy ) and the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver is active in both systems but only works in mint10. I have tried the b43-fwcutter and b43-fwinstall methods as mentioned elsewhere in the forum both with and without LAN connected but to no avail.
Please give a baby step answer if poss as I'm not really techy. Im a middle aged joiner and my usual response to problems is to hit them with a hammer.

Edit
I have now tried the steps advised by AlbertP on viewtopic.php?f=53&t=105900 also to no avail
Edit 2
Also in perusing I checked my network connections and wireless doesnt even show as an option. I just get
wired
Sitecom USB 2 Ethernet on
Realtek (string of numbers) cable unplugged

Here is the data on my system
inxi -Fc 0
System: Host: mark-Presario-C500-RT154EA-ABU Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Presario C500 (RT154EA#ABU) version: F.12
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30C6 version: 78.10 Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: F.12 date: 12/20/2006
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M CPU 430 (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (nx sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 1729.167 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x800@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 8.0.2
Audio: Card: Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:16:d4:b8:eb:29
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (23.8% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9320325AS 320.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 116G used: 4.9G (5%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 3.14GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0C mobo: 26.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 133 Uptime: 7 min Memory: 247.0/992.1MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33



Here is the response to the wifi query clem asks for
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d4:b8:eb:29
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:16 Base address:0x2000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:60:15:06:b2
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::210:60ff:fe15:6b2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:900 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:871 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:966999 (966.9 KB) TX bytes:120465 (120.4 KB)

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...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.136
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.142
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.130
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.137
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.133
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.132
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.135
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.129
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.134
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.131
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.41.128

[jungle_boy]

Your wireless card run fine with b43driver.

1- Make a fresh LM install

2- sudo apt-get update

3- sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

4- Reboot.

Before, did you try additional drivers icon of LM13 (gtk-jockey)?

[markj42]

Thanks for reply jungle_boy
Do I really need to reinstall LM13 before using those commands? in terminal because they dont work without me doing so. Just tried. If so, do I need to do anything different to write over the existing LM13 partition?
And yes, I did try additional drivers icon which is how I activated Broadcom 802.11 STA driver in first place and which activated wifi in LM10

Edit
Removed 802.11 STA driver and repeated steps as per your advice and hey presto, we are free to roam.

Thanks ever so jungle_boy

[jungle_boy]

But STA driver don't work with your wireless card?

I said a fresh install because when you try to install another drivers (b43, ssb, wl, sta, etc), the system try to run all of them and the network drop, it would be necessary put them in a blacklist..