<SOLVED>No wifi on hp 2133

[orangeduelmaster1]

hi
I have just installed the full 32bit version of Qiana on an old hp 2133 laptop. Everything is working fine except for that the desktop runs in software rendered mode (I have no GCard, this is just here in case it's relevant, but if I need to do something...) and I have no wifi. I used to run a Debian build, sparky linux, which required me to run modprobe b43 to get wifi working, however when I do this in mint nothing seems to happen, still only ethernet connections listed (not plugged in). I don't know which wifi card I have, label's rubbed of, but Google says its a WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n (Broadcom 4322AGN). I do have Internet via ethernet.
Please be aware I am very new to linux.
Thank you.

[JeremyB]

Linux will tell us what card it is with this command in terminal

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

Then again if you needed b43 with Debian there is a chance you just need the firmware installed and a reboot

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

[orangeduelmaster1]

Ok, done that, it returns:

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02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corperation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4321] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1371]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

It then goes on to ethernet, but I assume that's not relevant.
(manually copied so typos possible)

[JeremyB]

Ok, done that, it returns:

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02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corperation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4321] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1371]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

It then goes on to ethernet, but I assume that's not relevant.
(manually copied so typos possible)

You can use your mouse to highlight and copy from terminal as long as you aren't using xterm.
It likely needs the firmware I edited my above post to include, but we can check dmesg

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dmesg | grep b43

[orangeduelmaster1]

run install, will reboot afyter this. here is dmesg;

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[   38.499882] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 13)
[   38.605702] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 9
[   38.647929] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   38.647941] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
[   43.190568] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   43.190579] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
[   43.689506] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   43.689518] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
[   43.710427] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   43.710439] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
[   43.773973] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode13.fw" not found
[   43.773985] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode13.fw" not found
[   43.773991] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
max@maxlaptop ~ $ 

[orangeduelmaster1]

It works fine now, thank you very much!