wifi mint 17.1 dell latitude d800

[jroo]

ok checked bios wireless is on so is fn f2 i have bcm4309 tried installing b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer and restarted still nothing. i have had these problems with other ubuntu flavors and got them working on this laptop but mint got me at wits end. i dont know what to try next read post after post but nothing works. i will post some info maybe help somebody help me any ideas what to do or maybe im just a morron idk lol
lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Latitude D400 [1028:865d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3

02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller [14e4:4324] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1400 [1028:0001]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4324 (rev 02)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:13:3c:24
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fe13:3c24/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4719 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7866161 (7.8 MB) TX bytes:719867 (719.8 KB)
Interrupt:11

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:427 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:427 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:41954 (41.9 KB) TX bytes:41954 (41.9 KB)

[JeremyB]

You installed the proprietary driver first and that blacklists the needed driver, so

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms

Reboot and wifi should work

[jroo]

You installed the proprietary driver first and that blacklists the needed driver, so

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms

Reboot and wifi should work

ok i did that and still no wifi

[JeremyB]

Try this and reboot

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall firmware-b43-installer

[jroo]

still nothing its driving me crazy

[JeremyB]

still nothing its driving me crazy

Lets see what modules are loaded

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lsmod

[jroo]

lsmod
Module Size Used by
gpio_ich 13229 0
dell_laptop 17808 0
dcdbas 14448 1 dell_laptop
dm_multipath 22402 0
scsi_dh 14458 1 dm_multipath
nvidia 7108418 26
bnep 18895 2
rfcomm 53664 0
bluetooth 342208 10 bnep,rfcomm
snd_intel8x0 33110 2
snd_ac97_codec 105709 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 85501 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 25135 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 55383 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
b43legacy 104081 0
pcmcia 51828 0
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 28584 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
mac80211 546051 1 b43legacy
snd 60939 12 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
joydev 17101 0
yenta_socket 40201 0
serio_raw 13230 0
cfg80211 409394 2 mac80211,b43legacy
pcmcia_rsrc 18319 1 yenta_socket
soundcore 12600 1 snd
lpc_ich 16864 0
pcmcia_core 22328 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
binfmt_misc 13140 1
irda 107386 0
mac_hid 13037 0
crc_ccitt 12627 1 irda
shpchp 32128 0
parport_pc 31981 1
ppdev 17391 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40836 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror 21756 0
dm_region_hash 20121 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18072 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
firewire_ohci 35529 0
tg3 152132 0
firewire_core 61867 1 firewire_ohci
psmouse 91329 0
ptp 18445 1 tg3
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
pps_core 18799 1 ptp
ssb 51854 1 b43legacy
video 18903 0

[JeremyB]

b43legacy loaded so

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43legacy-installer

and reboot

[jroo]

yes it worked dont need a baseball bat. thanks for all the help much appreciated

[traffic1326]

yes it worked dont need a baseball bat. thanks for all the help much appreciated

I always use this with my Dell Vostro 1720:
https://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/index.php?P ... #msg702358

The post of nognie (6th from up)
It works for Ubuntu, but for Linux Mint too

It`s the first thing I do when I`ve installed the new version.
It is in Dutch, but maybe you can get a translation?