[SOLVED] No Wifi, No Ethernet, In Latest Version of Linux Mint: Cinnamon Edition

[logitwood12]

Hi can someone please show me how to connect to my wireless router? The brand is Frontier and I can't connect to the internet wirelessly and through ethernet cable because its not letting me. I recently just downloaded and install the latest version of Linux Mint: Cinnamon Edition. I been researching online and how to connect and none of them work for me. PLease help me and reply back.

[michael louwe]

Hi can someone please show me how to connect to my wireless router? The brand is Frontier and I can't connect to the internet wirelessly and through ethernet cable because its not letting me. I recently just downloaded and install the latest version of Linux Mint: Cinnamon Edition. I been researching online and how to connect and none of them work for me. PLease help me and reply back.

https://frontier.com/helpcenter/categor ... i-password

You need to do a inxi -Fxz to check the brand of your computer's Wifi adapter. For Broadcom and Realtek Wifi adapters, you likely need to find and manually install the missing proprietary Wifi drivers, eg ...
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... /reserve-7 - Realtek wireless chipset: install the right driver

[logitwood12]

Where to download Broadcom drivers? This is my network specs:

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Network:   Card-1: NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet
           driver: forcedeth port: 21e0 bus-ID: 00:0a.0
           IF: enp0s10 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
           driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A

[JeremyB]

Download download/file.php?id=38994 and copy it to the Mint Desktop, right click on the b43.zip and choose extract here and in terminal do

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cd Desktop
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp ~/Desktop/b43/* /lib/firmware/b43/

[logitwood12]

I don't know if it's installed or not. I still can't connect to my router. I did everything you said and this what I got:

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ricky@ricky-MacBookPro:~$ cd Desktop
ricky@ricky-MacBookPro:~/Desktop$ sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
[sudo] password for ricky: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for ricky: 
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/lib/firmware/b43’: File exists

[JeremyB]

So just do

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sudo cp ~/Desktop/b43/* /lib/firmware/b43/

Reboot

[logitwood12]

I did that and rebooted and nothing happens. It's the same thing.

[JeremyB]

What is the result for

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lsmod | grep cfg

[michael louwe]

I did that and rebooted and nothing happens. It's the same thing.

Some background information about Broadcom Wifi drivers for Linux ....... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/broadcom_wireless

[logitwood12]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I had to go to Driver Manager to apply the changes for the firmware and reboot. Thanks for trying to help.