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katyauser

Wireless Not Enabled

Post 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 ?
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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.
katyauser

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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.
katyauser

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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. :)
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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Is there any chance you'd like to make it permanent?? It looks to me like all it took was:

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sudo rfkill unblock all
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.
katyauser

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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I rebooted and the wireless works -- didn't even have to enter the "sudo rfkill unblock all" command in the terminal.
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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Awesome! Have fun and if we can help you again, feel free to post back.
katyauser

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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If I have any further problems -- I'll let you know. Thanks again man. :D
jogamedu

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

Post 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)
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
-------------------------
* 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)

-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
-------------------------
* 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
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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.
jogamedu

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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.
jogamedu

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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 :oops:
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

Post 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
:oops:
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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Let's see:

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lsmod | grep b43
dmesg | grep b43
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?
jogamedu

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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. :(
jogamedu

Re: Wireless Not Enabled

Post 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 :D
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Re: Wireless Not Enabled

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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!
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