wifi conection mint 17

[atatona]

Hi, I have a laptop compaq v5000, it have 2gb of ram and 80gb of hard drive,I installed linux mint 17 in this computer ( only this operative sistem in the computer no windows), but my wifi is no working, I did this:

nielsen@nielsen-Presario-V5000-EZ552UA-ABA ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
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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:d4:08:ac:05
inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:d4ff:fe08:ac05/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2601:0:6100:6f8:942:bdf5:2fc8:1b67/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: 2601:0:6100:6f8:216:d4ff:fe08:ac05/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:14033417 (14.0 MB) TX bytes:2043105 (2.0 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:1143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:118333 (118.3 KB) TX bytes:118333 (118.3 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for nielsen:

so...can somebody help me please???...thanks.

[beefalo]

check out this
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=171718

[atatona]

hi, thanks I read your answer buddy but i don't understand, can you explain better please, actually I don't know nothing about linux...thanks for you time.

[JeremyB]

hi, thanks I read your answer buddy but i don't understand, can you explain better please, actually I don't know nothing about linux...thanks for you time.

Open a terminal window- CTRL+ALT+t

Enter these commands, you can copy them and use the mouse to paste them into terminal- CTRL+v/CTRL+c doesn't work in terminal

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su

enter your password

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apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source

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apt-get update

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apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

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echo "blacklist b43" >>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

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exit

Reboot and if it doesn't work, run this

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wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script

[atatona]

HI buddy it's working thank you so much...again thank...I'm happy.

[JeremyB]

HI buddy it's working thank you so much...again thank...I'm happy.

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