no wireless network on 17.2

[Abbotwhite]

please help, I'm new to Linux and loving it, however I can not connect wirelessly to the internet!


inxi -Fxz:
System: Host: Abbotwhite Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: MATE 1.10.0 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: System: TOSHIBA product: SATELLITE L50D-B version: PSKULE-00S00QEN
Mobo: AMD model: Larne Bios: Insyde version: 1.60 date: 12/11/2014
CPU: Quad core AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 15970.1
Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1400.00 MHz 3: 1000.00 MHz 4: 1800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] bus-ID: 00:01.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,radeon) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 9840 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n driver: wl bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (0.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID: / size: 46G used: 4.7G (11%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 46G used: 155M (1%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 50.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.9C mobo: N/A gpu: 49.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 172 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 680.4/6878.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17

sudo rfkill list all:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

iwconfig:
eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

lo no wireless extensions.


thanks in advance

[Hoser Rob]

According to this (askubuntu is my favorite ubuntu/mint support site if you know what release your mint is based on) ...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/459654/d ... rusty-tahr

... wl is the wrong wireless driver.

Connect it with an ethernet cablr and try this in teminal:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

and reboot. Always update before installing.

[Abbotwhite]

Thank you Hoser Rob, however the fix made no difference at all

[Laurent85]

1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Status report wireless is hardware blocked. Check the switch to turn wireless on.

[Abbotwhite]

thanks laurent85, there is no switch, i don't know what is blocking it!

[Laurent85]

Function key combination to turn wifi on/off not working ?

[Abbotwhite]

Function key combination to turn wifi on/off not working ?

it does say 'wi-fi is disabled by hardware switch' but no button or combination seems to switch it on

[JeremyB]

Try reseting BIOS to defaults

[WharfRat]

When I first installed linux on a laptop I thought the wireless was broken until I looked at the function key card in the packaging,

The key combo was Fn+F2 to turn on the wifi.

Yours might be different, check with google

[Abbotwhite]

ok, I have rest my BIOS to default, no differance

I have tried every FN combination with F keys and nothing, even the one with the wi-fi logo on does nothing yet all others do as the the button suggests...

[WharfRat]

ok, I have rest my BIOS to default, no differance

I have tried every FN combination with F keys and nothing, even the one with the wi-fi logo on does nothing yet all others do as the the button suggests...

The connection might not happen just by unblocking it. After hitting the key combo check rfkill to see if there is a change of status.

[Abbotwhite]

ok, I have rest my BIOS to default, no differance

I have tried every FN combination with F keys and nothing, even the one with the wi-fi logo on does nothing yet all others do as the the button suggests...

The connection might not happen just by unblocking it. After hitting the key combo check rfkill to see if there is a change of status.

looks like it is getting worse!!

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes

[WharfRat]

Try

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sudo rfkill unblock all

then check it again.

[Abbotwhite]

right, got it back to

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

and have just done that Wharfrat, no change i'm afraid

[WharfRat]

Check halfway down this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2245267&page=2

[SleeperService]

Broadcom cards are a bit notorious on Linux... try

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 sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree 

Reboot and if it's still not working see if anything shows up in the Driver Manager.

[JeremyB]

Broadcom cards are a bit notorious on Linux... try

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 sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree 

Reboot and if it's still not working see if anything shows up in the Driver Manager.

The linux-fimrware-nonfree package has nothing for Broadcom wifi cards any longer due to licensing issues

[Abbotwhite]

looks like i'm going to have to re-install windows, get driver package then re-install linux along side it.....wish me luck

[WharfRat]

looks like i'm going to have to re-install windows, get driver package then re-install linux along side it.....wish me luck

You might want to do some additional searching first, but that came up toward the top of the list.

That's a lot to go through

[JeremyB]

Post the results from

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lsmod

There is a chance that a module loaded and is causing the issue