[SOLVED] WIFI not working after inatalling Mint 17

[Fred60]

I can only connect via wired port.

here is the output you ask for:

administrator@Precision-M70 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for administrator:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
==> PCI ID = 8086:4223 (rev 05)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=off Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3f:e9:95:36
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::212:3fff:fee9:9536/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1736507 (1.7 MB) TX bytes:572871 (572.8 KB)
Interrupt:16

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:475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:45968 (45.9 KB) TX bytes:45968 (45.9 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.172
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.157
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.162
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.177
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.178
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.183
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.168
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.153
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.152
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.187
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.173
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.182
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.148
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.158
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.167
Name: google.com
Address: 167.206.252.163

administrator@Precision-M70 ~ $

I see it says PRO/Wireless 2915ABG, but my card is infact a Broadcom Netextreme BCM5751 bgn

[kukamuumuka]

How about command

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inxi -N

[Fred60]

Here is the output from that command:
administrator@Precision-M70 ~ $ inxi -N
Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3
Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver: ipw2200
administrator@Precision-M70 ~ $

[Fred60]

Found another forum entry with a the same problem with a Broadcom card. Executed the same commands and the problem is corrected. See: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=182296&p=945291&hilit=broadcom+bcm5751#p945291

"commands" minus the quotes.

1. "sudo apt-get update"
2. "sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer"