wlan interface unavailable - No wifi

[luisdcm]

Hi,
I'm new user of Linux MInt and I don have big knowledge of linux environment. It's a great experience.
I´ m using one old computer, Compaq tablet TR4400. All is ok except wifi and Bluetooth.
Wlan interface is Unavailable. I paste my Screen messages from mintWifi.py

luis@Port-tab ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* 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.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d4:36:93:52
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7830 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1692 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7271261 (7.2 MB) TX bytes:961705 (961.7 KB)
Interrupt:16

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:325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:32781 (32.7 KB) TX bytes:32781 (32.7 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:a5:b7:71:5b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find google.com: REFUSED

If you need more info, tell me please.
Tx. in advance.

[viking777]

Do you have mac filtering enabled in your wireless router? If so does the list of accepted mac addresses include the one for your Compaq wireless card.

If you don't understand any of that last sentence, then the chances are that you do not have mac filtering enabled, it will never be enabled by default, you have to do it yourself, and if you have done it yourself, you would understand the sentence. Unless of course somebody else set up your router for you and didn't tell you what they had done?

[remoulder]

BCM4311

This chipset should work out of the box, did you install the Broadcom drivers? Please supply the outputs of the following

Code: Select all

inxi -SNx
dmesg | egrep "wl |sta |wlan0"