No Internet Connectivity

[Dennis Clark]

Sorry but I do not know the edition that I have loaded solely on a Dell Inspiron laptop. It had Win XP on it and both the ethernet and WIFI worked. I loaded MINT Cinnimon 32 bit version. The laptop has a Broadcom 802.11g network adapter and not sure how the Ethernet is supported .
I need help and since I have no internet access on the machine I need to type in all commands in the Terminal view.
I reserached some of the previous entries but am uncertain what to use . So need some assistance with this as well as some patience given I am not a computer wizz.
Thanks
Dennis

[sleeper12]

Post the results of this command between the <code> tags:

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 inxi -Fxxxrz && rfkill list && iwconfig && mokutil --sb-state 

You may be able to get a temporary connection like this:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... ernet.html

[Dennis Clark]

The hotspot on both a Iphone and a Android phone would not connect to the laptop through the USB. I ran the code you provided but do not know how I can copy it to this my desktop.
I can add a few of the high lights and they are below:
Kernal 4.19.0-8-866 i686 32 bit compiler gcc v:8.3.0 Cinnimon 4.4.8 wm Muffin 4.4.2 dm LITEDM 1.26.0 Distro LMDE 4 DEBBIE base Debian 10.2 buster
Dell Inspiron 1501 model OUW744
CPU single core AMD Sempron 3600+
Network Device 1 Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11bg WLAN Dell Wireless 1390 driver port 9000 Bus ID 05:00.0 Chip ID 14e4:4311
Device 2 Broadcom Limited BCM 4401-BQ 100Base -TX Dell Driver Port 9000 Bus ID 08:00.0 Chip ID 14e4:170c
The command MOKUTIL was not found but can be installed.

I hope this helps

[sleeper12]

You have LMDE4 installed, not Linux Mint. I don't know enough about LMDE4 to help, but maybe a Mod can move this to the proper section for better help.

[Dennis Clark]

Should I download another version and if so do you have any recommendations for me such as 32 bit vs 64 bit. For info I installed a wifi doogle into the USB port and my network appears but will not connect.
Thanks

[JerryF]

You have LMDE4 installed, not Linux Mint. I don't know enough about LMDE4 to help, but maybe a Mod can move this to the proper section for better help.

LMDE = Linux Mint Debian Edition.

[kilobitter]

Dennis, I just solved a similar issue:

I can add a few of the high lights and they are below:
Kernal 4.19.0-8-866 i686 32 bit compiler gcc v:8.3.0 Cinnimon 4.4.8 wm Muffin 4.4.2 dm LITEDM 1.26.0 Distro LMDE 4 DEBBIE base Debian 10.2 buster
Dell Inspiron 1501 model OUW744
CPU single core AMD Sempron 3600+
Network Device 1 Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11bg WLAN Dell Wireless 1390 driver port 9000 Bus ID 05:00.0 Chip ID 14e4:4311
Device 2 Broadcom Limited BCM 4401-BQ 100Base -TX Dell Driver Port 9000 Bus ID 08:00.0 Chip ID 14e4:170c
The command MOKUTIL was not found but can be installed.

My machine is similar, a Dell Inspiron 1520 (this is the output after the fix):

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inxi -Sx -Nx
System:    Host: snowflake Kernel: 4.19.0-8-686 i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 
           dm: LightDM Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX vendor: Dell driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: 10c0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 14e4:170c 
           Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN vendor: Dell Wireless 1390 driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A 
           port: 10c0 bus ID: 0c:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4311 

I found (and solved) two issues with LMDE4:

• The firmware files for b43 are missing

• from the various available broadcom drivers, "wl" is configured instead of "b43".

You can fix the latter in /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf
by commenting out the "b44" line (by prepending a hash). Then

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modprobe b44

should instantly enable the wired network.
Also, comment out the "b43" line, and add a line "blacklist wl", to enable the WLAN. The resulting file would look like this:

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# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
#blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
#blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb
blacklist wl

Of course you first need get the appropriate firmware files to /lib/firmware/b43/ , either by installing and running the "b43-firmware-installer" package, or by copying over from any other Linux.
See the Debian Wiki for details on b43 driver and installation: https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43_and_b43legacy

I hope this helps.

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On a side note,

I ran the code you provided but do not know how I can copy it to this my desktop.

You could redirect the command output to a file:

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{ inxi -Fxxxrz && rfkill list && { iwconfig || iw list; } && mokutil --sb-state ; } > inxi.out 

FYI, the curly braces are part of the command. And there must be a semicolon before a closing curly brace.

Then you could copy the output file to your other computer, using a USB-flash, or diskette, or whatever storage hardware is at your hands.