[solved] wireless external card

[diedro]

dear all,
I have a laptop, unfortunately without wireless. As a consequence I bought an external wireless card:

http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage. ... _Id=439298

I am not able to activate it and I would like to do so. On ubuntu it worked, but now I am not able to use it on LinuxMInt.

Thanks a lot

Diedro

[JeremyB]

In terminal enter

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lshw -c net

and paste the info that is returned

[diedro]

dear JeremyB, dear all,

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*-network               
       description: Ethernet interface 
       product: NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express 
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation 
       physical id: 0 
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0 
       logical name: eth0 
       version: 02 
       serial: 00:1c:23:28:42:55 
       capacity: 1Gbit/s 
       width: 64 bits 
       clock: 33MHz 
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation 
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.134 firmware=5755m-v3.29 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair 
       resources: irq:44 memory:f1ff0000-f1ffffff 
  *-network 
       description: Network controller 
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller 
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation 
       physical id: 1 
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 
       version: 02 
       width: 32 bits 
       clock: 33MHz 
       capabilities: bus_master 
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 
       resources: irq:19 memory:8c000000-8c001fff 

[JeremyB]

This is worth a try

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

[diedro]

Dear all, Dear JeremyB,

That command works perfectly.

Thanks, Thanks a lot.

I would like to ask you a favour. Could you gently explain me it? How have you understood that it was the correct command?

Thanks again

[JeremyB]

Dear all, Dear JeremyB,

That command works perfectly.

Thanks, Thanks a lot.

I would like to ask you a favour. Could you gently explain me it? How have you understood that it was the correct command?

Thanks again

Most broadcom cards either work with module b43(like yours) with firmware-b43-installer, b43legacy with firmware-b43legacy-installer, or bcmwl-kernel-source. Your info showed

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driver=b43-pci-bridge

and I think it is better to try installing the firmware package before trying bcmwl-kernel-source as it will blacklist the drivers you actually need

[diedro]

Dear JeremyB,

I will study it.

Thanks a lot.