Broadcom wireless adapter issues - <Solved>

[Geezle]

Okay, I just got a new HP laptop and I installed Mint 10 alongside Win7 (on its own partition) but it's complaining that my wireless driver isn't available. It wants to connect to the internet to download it, but I don't have a wired connection available - only wireless here. Is there a simple way I can download it on this stupid windows machine, slap it on a USB drive and go from there?

I'll try to get my mintwifi up in a few minutes...just have to do some computer/OS swapping...

[Geezle]

Ok here it is:

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jay@jay-HP-G62-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4727 (rev 01)
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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 c8:0a:a9:aa:d1:ad  
          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:42 Base address:0xe000 
eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr c8:0a:a9:aa:d1:ad  
          inet addr:169.254.11.0  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:42 Base address:0xe000 

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:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:8988 (8.9 KB)  TX bytes:8988 (8.9 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 1897
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/c8:0a:a9:aa:d1:ad
Sending on   LPF/eth0/c8:0a:a9:aa:d1:ad
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

[willie42]

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/218---LMDE

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 312024-KDE

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... &p=343779- The rest

if you still have problems come back

[Geezle]

That's exactly what I was looking for, and I'm up and running in Mint 10 now!!

Thanks!

[Geezle]

Hmm...it doesn't seem to load when I reboot. Any ideas?

[rivenathos]

Is your wireless set for use by all users? Do you have automatic log-in on your laptop or the password protected log-in?

[Geezle]

Password protected login.

Not sure if it's set up for all users or not though...?

[rivenathos]

This may or may not be the answer, but I have mine set this way:

Right-click on the Network Manager > choose Edit Connections > go to the Wireless tab > left-click the connection > then click the Edit button.
I have check marks in the boxes for "Connect automatically" and "Available to all users."

Maybe this will fix you up. If not, well, it was worth a shot.

[Geezle]

My bad on that one I think. Now that I've got a connection I installed the Broadcom driver that Mint wanted to install, and that seems to have taken care of itself

Thanks for the help!

[rivenathos]

Glad you got it sorted out. You learned some new things in the process, as well. Remember to write this in your notebook of tweaks, tips, and tricks.

Also, it would be great if you added (Solved) to the title of this thread so it may help others.

[Geezle]

I'd love to if I could figure out how to edit my subject line/mark it as solved!

[willie42]

go to the top of the org post and click edit


all there is too it

[Geezle]

Oops!! How did I miss that one?!

Oh man it's been a long day!

[willie42]

Believe me could happen to anyone have a nice evening and happy new year