WIFI Porblems

[DrHu]

HELP! I have a compaq v6000 and i have been looking on this fourm for 3 days to try to get Linux to recognize my wireless card. It will not even see the card

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ss#p121219
Apparently an older release of Linux Mint did recognize that card..

• Linux mint 6 (Felicia)..

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=36440

• Or this, using broadcom drivers with Linux Mint 7..

The unfortunate part is that I lost my windows CD and I deleted the partition that had windows on it so i cant use the windows file to recover the driver for my computer. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The unfortunate part is that I lost my windows CD..
Which, of course means missing windows drivers for the computer, so you may have to get them elsewhere, e.g. the Internet

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 61&start=0
more context needed: model # and results from ...
In terminal, check
--I assume that this machine uses a built in wireless and not a usb stick, but doesn't hurt to see more data..

• inxi -F
  lspci
  dmesg
  --errors for wireless card
  lsusb

Sure, if you want to try ndisqwrapper for that wireless card/chipset, then you could download the windows driver

• If it is not an *.exe file, it might be able to be expanded (extracted or unzipped ? ) to show the files within. But I would be looking for that windows driver for Compaq v6000 ..
  --or research the broadcom options for Linux..

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... =c01087277

• Might be a warranty problem, read notes..

Also battery issues..
http://news.laptopbatterywholesale.com/ ... pping.html

Ubuntu ..wireless (broadcom)..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... %284311%29