I have a Dell Latitude d510 with Linux Mint 17 installed. It won't identify or install a driver for the installed Braodcom Wifi Card. These are the card specs:
Broadcoam DW1470
TW-0D9002-36210-57A-1E3D
MAC: 0014A509D686
LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
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VirgoMale8
LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
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Re: LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
Can you open a terminal window and post the results from this command
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lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net-
VirgoMale8
Re: LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
arnett@linux-mint-Dell-Latitude-D510 ~ $ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6400 [1028:01af]
Kernel driver in use: b44
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02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver [14e4:4319] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0005]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
arnett@linux-mint-Dell-Latitude-D510 ~ $
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6400 [1028:01af]
Kernel driver in use: b44
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02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver [14e4:4319] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0005]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
arnett@linux-mint-Dell-Latitude-D510 ~ $
Re: LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
If you have wired connection to internetVirgoMale8 wrote:arnett@linux-mint-Dell-Latitude-D510 ~ $ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6400 [1028:01af]
Kernel driver in use: b44
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02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver [14e4:4319] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0005]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
arnett@linux-mint-Dell-Latitude-D510 ~ $
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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer-
VirgoMale8
Re: LinuxMint won't find my Wifi Card
Did so and it connects fine using the internal wifi card. Thanks.