Hi, I'm setting up 17.2 on a old Dell machine and got to the point of trying to make the wireless work. I have a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card according to
lspci -vq | grep -i wire -B 1 -A 5
But when I updated through device manager after installing the non-free drivers, it was Broadcom 6.0 something I think. During install, ethernet disconnected, wireless connected according to notifications and I think ethernet reconnected without a notification. Then I rebooted. Upon reboot, no ethernet connection, no wireless. I looked at
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf
and this file says it will be overwritten and bcm43xx and b44 are blacklisted. My ethernet adapter is a 44xx broadcom and earlier in the day, system told me I had a broadcom 4311 for wireless.
Now I can't seem to do anything because Device Manager will not let me deselect the 6.0xx? driver without an internet connection.
Anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?
Installing non free Broadcom driver terminated Internet Conn
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Re: Installing non free Broadcom driver terminated Internet
The culprit driver that disabled Broadcom BCM was BCMWL-kernal-source 6.30.223.248+broadcom-0ubuntu0.1. The installation of this driver corrupted my whole system. Tons of error codes during boot and Mint 17.2 could not shutdown in addition to trashing the network configuration. So I reinstalled 17.2 and tried again with the same result. On the third install I learned it was not a non-free driver as I didn't load the non-free drivers. I was afraid to select it again.
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
And it appeared to install properly, and ethernet connection still works but not wifi. nm-applet will not load. It is not a choice from Applets. I can see it in the file manager, but it will not start by double clicking. It also will not start from terminal. Wifi bios control is set to on.
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
And it appeared to install properly, and ethernet connection still works but not wifi. nm-applet will not load. It is not a choice from Applets. I can see it in the file manager, but it will not start by double clicking. It also will not start from terminal. Wifi bios control is set to on.
Re: Installing non free Broadcom driver terminated Internet
Can you open a terminal, copy/paste commands below then post back the result
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inxi -Fxz
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net