Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

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Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

Post by manishmradul »

mintwifi

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (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 00:16:d3:a3:ff:37
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:d3ff:fea3:ff37/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1710 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3531904 (3.5 MB) TX bytes:239905 (239.9 KB)

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:293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:33914 (33.9 KB) TX bytes:33914 (33.9 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.7
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.4
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.3
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.8
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.0
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.9
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.1
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.14
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.5
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.6
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.224.2
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Re: Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

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Did you have the internet connected during the install process?

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Re: Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

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That chipset usually works after

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
and a reboot
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Re: Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

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manishmradul, did you get this issue sorted?

:)
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Re: Wireless not working after installing Mint 17

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jbh911 wrote:manishmradul, did you get this issue sorted?

:)
Can you post the results from

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
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