Wireless does not work for HP Pavilion

[Samson123]

Went to Driver Manager and installed the driver but wireless does not work

Again I followed a post in the forums and did the below but the wireless still does not show


lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)



PCI-ID 14e4:4311

Chip ID BCM4311

After which I ran the below command

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Chris

[Samson123]

Output from mintwifi , also would like to update that this is a dual boot laptop with windows 7 which has a working wifi connected
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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 00:16:36:ef:d8:d3
inet addr:192.168.1.121 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fdd7:a8db:e9d1:0:216:36ff:feef:d8d3/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:feef:d8d3/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: fdd7:a8db:e9d1:0:a1b9:1285:578:9b0c/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12117132 (12.1 MB) TX bytes:1404378 (1.4 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:794 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:794 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:79175 (79.1 KB) TX bytes:79175 (79.1 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 202.83.23.83
Address: 202.83.23.83#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.196
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.195
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.198
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.200
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.206
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.197
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.199
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.193
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.192
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.194
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.236.201

-HP-Pavilion-dv6000-RP297UA-ABA ~ $

[PatH57]

Hi,

let's see

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rfkill list

[Samson123]

P-Pavilion-dv6000-RP297UA-ABA ~ $ rfkill list
P-Pavilion-dv6000-RP297UA-ABA ~ $

This does not give an output

Chris

[PatH57]

ok

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lsmod | grep b43

[Samson123]

No output

Chris

[Samson123]

Also I have opened Driver Manager and its empty and says No proprietary drivers are in use'

I am connected to internet using the LAN cable

Chris

[PatH57]

ok so the drivers did not install ?
anyway

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

[Samson123]

Not sure why I am unable to see anything in Driver Manager but I could see the driver before and even installed it without sucesses

Chris

[Samson123]

$ sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
[sudo] password for samson:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'broadcom-sta-common' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'broadcom-sta-source' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bcmwl-kernel-source*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 4,944 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 144427 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Purging configuration files for bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
Warning: No support for locale: en_IN


sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
b43-fwcutter set to manually installed.
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
b43-fwcutter set to manually installed.


Chris

[PatH57]

sorry reboot.

[Samson123]

Now that fixed it thx a ton

Chris

[PatH57]

glad it worked, save it somewhere these buggers are still alive and kicking on older laptops

[Mintuser2342]

ok so the drivers did not install ?
anyway

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

This worked on mine too. Thank you.