Wifi Works in LM 17 but not under 18.2
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:51 pm
It is with a heavy heart that I ask for help on such a seemingly basic issue, but after trying and reading some other posts, here I am...
Considering upgrade to Linux Mint 18.2, I made a USB and can boot 'live' on it but the Wifi does not work.
Clicking panel symbol, no networks are listed (there are several in area). It seems that in version 17 I just clicked one.
Not seeing that, I right click, chose "configure network connections" and made a new item of type wifi, entered the SSID from the router. Nothing happened. I edited it and then looked at security, thought to set it to WPA and enter appropriate password.
Now, something is happening - message appears above panel "Failed to get secrets from New 802-11"
I tried a few other things, such as entering a MAC address that I copied by looking at settings in the old version.
Seemed mostly automatic under 17 - no fields to fill except password.
In other posts I got the idea to type into terminal : inxi -N
Which shows this: Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller driver: b43-pci-bridge Card-2: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
If that's a clue at all.
Any ideas?
comp is a lenovo ThinkCentre.
Considering upgrade to Linux Mint 18.2, I made a USB and can boot 'live' on it but the Wifi does not work.
Clicking panel symbol, no networks are listed (there are several in area). It seems that in version 17 I just clicked one.
Not seeing that, I right click, chose "configure network connections" and made a new item of type wifi, entered the SSID from the router. Nothing happened. I edited it and then looked at security, thought to set it to WPA and enter appropriate password.
Now, something is happening - message appears above panel "Failed to get secrets from New 802-11"
I tried a few other things, such as entering a MAC address that I copied by looking at settings in the old version.
Seemed mostly automatic under 17 - no fields to fill except password.
In other posts I got the idea to type into terminal : inxi -N
Which shows this: Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller driver: b43-pci-bridge Card-2: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
If that's a clue at all.
Any ideas?
comp is a lenovo ThinkCentre.