Latitude D630 wifi not working

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yoshiki2

Latitude D630 wifi not working

Post by yoshiki2 »

Hello,
I installed linux mint debian 4 on my Latitude D630, and seems like there is no wifi or bluetooth working.
alfie@alfie:~$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
Host: alfie Kernel: 4.19.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.3 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D630 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0KU184 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A19
date: 06/04/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 2.0 Wh condition: 71.5/73.3 Wh (98%) volts: 8.3/11.1
model: SMP DELL GD7756 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7500 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom rev: B L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 8778
Speed: 1241 MHz min/max: 800/2201 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1537 2: 1297
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
vendor: Dell Latitude D630 driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:2a02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Dell Latitude D630
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:284b
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-9-amd64
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 10c0 bus ID: 09:00.0
chip ID: 14e4:1673
IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card driver: N/A port: 10c0
bus ID: 0c:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4312
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 6.18 GiB (2.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Corsair model: Force LS SSD size: 223.57 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 08.1 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 215.12 GiB used: 6.18 GiB (2.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 42.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2602
Info:
Processes: 170 Uptime: 14m Memory: 3.84 GiB used: 1.34 GiB (35.0%)
Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash
v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
Any ideas?
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sleeper12
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Re: Latitude D630 wifi not working

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Not sure if this works in LMDE, but try:

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 sudo apt remove bcmwl-kernel-source && sudo apt install --reinstall firmware-b43-installer 
Reboot
yoshiki2

Re: Latitude D630 wifi not working

Post by yoshiki2 »

I tried that, there is no difference at all.
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Re: Latitude D630 wifi not working

Post by sleeper12 »

Let's see these:

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 rfkill list 

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 mokutil --sb-state 

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 lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net 
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Re: Latitude D630 wifi not working

Post by mattlach »

Holy crap! A latitude D series.

I haven't seen one of those since I left my second professional job in ~2008

I thought my E6430s was an "old laptop" :p
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Re: Latitude D630 wifi not working

Post by jwiz »

Then I'd sugest to remove the firmware-b43-installer and try to have the wifi kernel module (wl) built by installing 'broadcom-sta-dmks'.
You will need to have the appropriate kernel headers installed for that.
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