[SOLVED] Lenovo u160 wifi problem on LMDE 201109 Gnome

[zimmers]

hi all,

i'm comming from ubuntu and have some truble to get my wifi up an running. hope to get some help here.
here are some outputs.

sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (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.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse f0:de:f1:22:f1:9f  
          inet Adresse:192.168.178.30  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6-Adresse: fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe22:f19f/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
          RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:16922 (16.5 KiB)  TX bytes:13613 (13.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:43 

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metrik:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only.
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Stopping NTP server: ntpd.
Starting NTP server: ntpd.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		192.168.178.1
Address:	192.168.178.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.105
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.99
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.103
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.104
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.106
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.43.147

sudo rfkill list all

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0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no

sudo ifconfig

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eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse f0:de:f1:22:f1:9f  
          inet Adresse:192.168.178.30  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6-Adresse: fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe22:f19f/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
          RX packets:3311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3209 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:2142608 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:375002 (366.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:43 

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metrik:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

sudo iwconfig

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lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

well, there is no wireless interface...

greetings

[soccerz619]

Have you had a look here?
It suggests using the STA drivers for the 4313 card, so it says all you should have to do is type the following into a terminal:

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

And then look here: Under desktop menu System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers, and the STA drivers can be activated for use. You may need to restart your computer after installing them for it to work. Let me know how it turns out

[zimmers]

hi soccerz619,

thx for your reply!

are there any aditional sources needed?
getting error: package not found!

also i can't find 'System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers'!

please note that i'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition(LMDE).

[Oscar799]

Moved here from the main forum

[soccerz619]

Ah it would help if I would read the main title, huh? Maybe try this link. Or try this one and scroll down to "Using the native linux driver (recommended)". I think that should get you going on LMDE. Sorry I didn't see that to begin with. See if those topics can help you out!

[zimmers]

hi soccerz619,

dont know why i didnt found the articel on debian wiki.
i only had to install the brcm80211 driver http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

like on ubuntu, i have to unblock all & rmmod acer_wmi to get it work, but i can live with it.

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sudo rfkill unblock all
sudo rmmod acer_wmi
sudo rfkill unblock all

many thanks for your help soccerz619!

greetings

[soccerz619]

It's ok, you got it figured out and that's the important thing. Do you have to do that every time you start up your computer? If so, you can make it a script and add it to your startup programs so that you don't manually have to do it all the time.

[zimmers]

yes, have to do it on every start up.
already tried to blacklist acer_wmi, but it seems to initialise something needed.

[zimmers]

ok, figuered out how to add a start up script, have not thought that it is that easy!

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sudo touch /etc/init.d/my_wlan
sudo editor /etc/init.d/my_wlan

added the following code

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#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/my_wlan
#

rfkill unblock all
rmmod acer_wmi
rfkill unblock all

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sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/my_wlan
sudo update-rc.d my_wlan defaults

now every thing works fine!

thanks for all the help!

[soccerz619]

Perfect! Glad to hear. Sorry it's more of a work around than a solution. But it works!