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Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:04 am
by katyauser
Hey, I just installed the latest version of Linux Mint (Linux Mint Main Edition 11 RC 64bit - DVD Install) on my Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and while everything else is up and running good I'm having an issue with the wireless card. I installed the required drivers but the option "Enable Wireless" in the network connections is greyed out.
I tried "lspci -vvnn" in the terminal and got this back:
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0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl, ssb
Anyone got any idea what could be wrong ?
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:17 am
by chili555
Let's see what driver you installed. Please open a terminal and run and post:
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sudo modprobe wl
dmesg | grep -e wl -e b43
If there are errors or warnings, the result will be informative. Please post the terminal output here. Thanks.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:20 am
by katyauser
Copied and pasted the above into the terminal and got this back:
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[ 21.184260] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 21.257032] wl 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 21.257048] wl 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:04 am
by chili555
I believe wl is correct for your device and, according to the timestamp in dmesg, it loaded during the normal boot process. Let's check something else:
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rfkill list all
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all
rfkill list all
Thanks.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:32 am
by katyauser
Tried the above in the terminal and got this back:
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~ $ rfkill list all
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
~ $ sudo rfkill unblock all
~ $ sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
ERROR: Removing 'dell_laptop': No such file or directory
$ rfkill list all
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
After I tried the above, the wireless is now working. Thank you for your help.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:01 am
by chili555
Is there any chance you'd like to make it permanent?? It looks to me like all it took was:
Would you please reboot and issue that single command? If that's it, we'll tweak one file to make it persistent. If not, we'll dig deeper.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:12 am
by katyauser
I rebooted and the wireless works -- didn't even have to enter the "sudo rfkill unblock all" command in the terminal.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:15 am
by chili555
Awesome! Have fun and if we can help you again, feel free to post back.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:16 am
by katyauser
If I have any further problems -- I'll let you know. Thanks again man.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:42 pm
by jogamedu
Hi I have de same problem.
This is the first step that I see in the instructions
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.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:38:56:37:e7
inet addr:172.16.1.118 Bcast:172.16.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fe56:37e7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:32806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:43027021 (43.0 MB) TX bytes:2138236 (2.1 MB)
Interrupt:18
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:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB) TX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 172.16.1.20
Address: 172.16.1.20#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.106
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.147
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.73.104
I`ve made the step told :
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo modprobe wl
gabriel@altius ~ $ dmesg | grep -e wl -e b43
[ 23.263698] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 23.378371] wl 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 23.378384] wl 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
gabriel@altius ~ $ rfkill list all
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
ERROR: Removing 'dell_laptop': No such file or directory
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo rfkill unblock all
gabriel@altius ~ $ rfkill list all
But as you see when I got to the second step I`ve obtained this message.
I wonder if you can help me. My linux version is linuxmint11
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:23 pm
by chili555
I don't believe wl is correct for your device.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... atty_11.04
Especially see:
CAUTION: This pci.id is also claimed by the Broadcom STA driver provided by bcmwl-kernel-source. Installation blacklists b43 and ssb. The driver bcmwl-kernel-source driver wl doesn't work well and b43 and ssb are preferred. To remove the incorrect driver and blacklist, do:
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sudo apt-get remove –purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf
Post back if you need additional guidance.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:22 am
by jogamedu
Thank you for your help.
I've made what you told me and the result was this:
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo apt-get remove –purge bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for gabriel:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for gabriel:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package –purge
So wireless still not works
I've tried also to remove the drivers with software manager but still dosen't work
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:41 pm
by chili555
The text is a bit hard to read for me on the forum. It is not -purge. It is, instead - -purge, with no spaces between the two minus signs. Please try again.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:58 pm
by jogamedu
done as you told here is the terminal message:
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
debhelper module-assistant quilt po-debconf libmail-sendmail-perl dkms
html2text libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bcmwl-kernel-source*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 171 not upgraded.
gabriel@altius ~ $ sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf
rm: cannot remove `/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf': No such file or directory
Still the wifi dosent work
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:19 pm
by chili555
Can you confirm that you took the other steps outlined in the tutorial I linked?
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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:37 pm
by jogamedu
thank you for your patience.
I've made your process. It installed the package. I cannot copy the terminal script because I reboot the computer. But the wifi still dosen work
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:42 pm
by chili555
Let's see:
If the first command doesn't show that the driver module b43 is loaded, please do:
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sudo su
echo b43 >> /etc/modules
modprobe b43
exit
Now is it working?
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:28 pm
by jogamedu
Excelent the network manager at once detected the inalambric web, I put the wep code. It marks 3 bars of signal But!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
No I cannot access any site with mozilla. I've restarted the lap, but the problem dosent solve. Then I conected again the wire and it works again. But wireless I cannot navigate.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:45 pm
by jogamedu
I'm writing you using my wifi conection. I dont know how to thank for your help and patience.
I dont know what happened I plug the ethernet cable, and then unpluged and firefox begin to work.
My son has another laptop with the same card.
I have to download the driver with the last instruction and then put the order that you told me is that correct?
Once again thank you very much
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:59 pm
by chili555
My son has another laptop with the same card.
I have to download the driver with the last instruction and then put the order that you told me is that correct?
If he has the
exact same card, then yes.
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
If not, post the details in a new thread and we'll get you going.
Glad it's working!