Hi,
I'm testing LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit on my very old HP Pavilion DV8000 laptop (2005 vintage). I'm currently booting LM 17 from a USB stick .... I have LM 13 installed on the laptop
This laptop has a Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 a/b/g PCI Express wireless card.
I attempted to install the drivers for my wlan using this guide:
http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.co.nz ... m4318.html
On the last command ($ sudo echo "b43" >> /etc/modules ), I get "bash: /etc/modules: Permission denied"
I see a comment on the above page saying "Then simply edit /etc/modules as root and add b43 to it. "
But I do not see /etc/modules in the bootable USB. There is a /etc/modules-load.d
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Tim
Broadcom BCM4318 on LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit
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Re: Broadcom BCM4318 on LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit
I would follow the instructions from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110 for your broadcom card as they are usually on the money
Re: Broadcom BCM4318 on LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit
Hi Kiwi Tim; I would endorse entirely what Jeremy advised you;
chili55 advises to remove if you previously installed the bcmwl kernel source package, you will need to remove it by using the purge method:
then if new install chili advises
chili55 advises to remove if you previously installed the bcmwl kernel source package, you will need to remove it by using the purge method:
..........seems like your attempted install did not work but the above command should not hurt ..........sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
then if new install chili advises
then you need linux-firmware-nonfree for the 4318 so the command issudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
Re: Broadcom BCM4318 on LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit
Thanks a lot!
"sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree" did it. Wlan is all good now.
Very happy.
Thanks again!
"sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree" did it. Wlan is all good now.
Very happy.
Thanks again!
Re: Broadcom BCM4318 on LM 17 Qiana Cinnamon 64Bit
great! enjoy