Hello.
I have the same problem.
I have re-installed LM 17.1 32 bit Mate on my Acer Aspire 9410z three times now from the DVD over one week, after trying too many broadcom 4311 suggestions online.
Had Ubuntu 8.10 working on this laptop for about 5 years (replacing the buggy disaster that was Vista, that came on this machine), and now everything is complaning that its outdated and refuses to update (firefox, chrome can't even install, youtube, etc.).
Can't remember how I got broadcom working then, but I do remember manually having to get it working after the 8.10 clean install.
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sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'bcmwl-kernel-source' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 437 not upgraded.
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mintwifi
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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.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d3:55:ed:03
inet addr:192.168.1.17 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:d3ff:fe55:ed03/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:55393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:47954869 (47.9 MB) TX bytes:2565196 (2.5 MB)
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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:138873 (138.8 KB) TX bytes:138873 (138.8 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for xxxx:
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:125.224.64
Address: 74.000.224.00
Name: google.com
Address: 74.111.224.1
Name: google.com
Address: 74..... etc.
modprobe command returned nothing:
Go to system settings > additional drivers.
There is no 'system settings' or 'additional drivers' control panel when i search the mint menu?!
not in 17.1 anymore?
I did find Driver Manager:
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$ sudo modprobe b43
$
Aspire ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_hda_codec_si3054 12864 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 55163 1
snd_hda_intel 42730 3
snd_hda_codec 164067 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13272 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 85501 3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
acer_wmi 31735 0
sparse_keymap 13708 1 acer_wmi
snd_rawmidi 25135 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 55383 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
dm_multipath 22402 0
snd_timer 28584 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
pcmcia 51828 0
scsi_dh 14458 1 dm_multipath
bnep 18895 2
rfcomm 53664 0
bluetooth 342208 10 bnep,rfcomm
coretemp 13195 0
b43 356470 0
snd 60939 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
joydev 17101 0
serio_raw 13230 0
bcma 42043 1 b43
mac80211 546051 1 b43
yenta_socket 40201 0
pcmcia_rsrc 18319 1 yenta_socket
tifm_7xx1 13163 0
tifm_core 15133 1 tifm_7xx1
pcmcia_core 22328 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
lpc_ich 16864 0
cfg80211 409394 2 b43,mac80211
soundcore 12600 1 snd
ssb_hcd 12749 0
parport_pc 31981 0
ppdev 17391 0
lp 13299 0
mac_hid 13037 0
parport 40836 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror 21756 0
dm_region_hash 20121 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18072 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
sdhci_pci 18535 0
psmouse 91329 0
sdhci 37779 1 sdhci_pci
ssb 51854 2 b43,ssb_hcd
i915 709755 2
r8169 61562 0
video 18903 2 i915,acer_wmi
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 48868 1 i915
mii 13654 1 r8169
drm 244037 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
wmi 18673 1 acer_wmi
Aspire ~ $ rfkill list all
Aspire ~ $
I will try rebooting at this point.
I have googled everywhere.
Thank you in advance.