I have recently installed Linux Mint 17 (Cinnamon) on my Acer notebook, and I'm in a bit of a struggle to get networking to work.
In addition to problems with wired networking (which I have detailed here), I just found out I am unable to use Wi-Fi.
When investigating the reason, I found out that the kernel is not attributing any interface name to my wireless card. Here is the output from running mintWifi.py:
As you can see, there is no interface for the wireless card. And here are the results from running inxi -Fxn:-------------------------
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4359
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c4:54:44:4c:90:c6
inet6 addr: fe80::c654:44ff:fe4c:90c6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8495 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:782814 (782.8 KB) TX bytes:25317 (25.3 KB)
Interrupt:62 Base address:0xe000
eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c4:54:44:4c:90:c6
inet addr:169.254.8.223 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:62 Base address:0xe000
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:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5384 (5.3 KB) TX bytes:5384 (5.3 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
As you can see, no interface name is attributed by the kernel to "Card-2" (my Broadcom wireless card).System: Host: Sauron Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Acer product: Aspire V5-573G
Mobo: Acer model: Dazzle_HW version: Type2 - A01 Board Version Bios: Insyde version: V2.28 date: 04/16/2014
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i7-4510U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10376.3
Clock Speeds: 1: 754.00 MHz 2: 754.00 MHz 3: 754.00 MHz 4: 754.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.2hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8168 ver: 8.038.00-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 05:00.1
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: c4:54:44:4c:90:c6
Card-2: Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1004.2GB (0.4% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST1000LM014 size: 1000.2GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 15G used: 4.1G (30%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 286G used: 95M (1%) fs: ext4
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 179 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 372.0/7865.5MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
I have no idea what to do, or how to solve this. If anyone could help, it would be much appreciated.