Live USB 17.2 Cinn does not recognize wifi

[obertscloud]

Hey
I downgraded my old hp mini netbook from windows 10 dual boot in doing so i wiped out an earlier version of linux mint i had on it, I think it was 15 or 14 and I had done upgrades to.
My image backup failed to restore grub and I could not get it working so I decided load the latest version of Mint, but on live boot USB it does not recognize the wifi
I have no wired connection at this location only wifi.

I do have another brand new laptop (asus ) running 17.2 fine, but figuring out how to get the drivers to the other to install mint is beyond my knowledge.

I could try to find the mint 15 distro and start over from there but I would rather run fresh.

can someone help me thanks

[obertscloud]

Broadcom BCM4312 801.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
PCI ID = 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

is result from mintwifi

III. lo and eho0 no wireless extensions

iV shows hWaddr for eth0

mintwifi hangs on V. querying DHCP

[obertscloud]

confirmed the latest uBuntu distro live usb recongnizes my wifi but i want Linux Mint

is there a way to download the files i need and copy them to my Live Mint USB ?

[JeremyB]

With that card, I don' think it is possible to get the wifi to work with the Live version but it should work after installing with the needed firmware.

With the computer with working wifi, open terminal and enter

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Then copy the /lib/firmware/b43/ directory to a USB drive or whatever and make a b43 directory on the problem computer and copy the files and reboot.

You could try copying the files into the Live version followed by

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sudo modprobe -r b43

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sudo modprobe b43

but every time I have suggested it, it seems to hang or stall

[obertscloud]

i remembered i had an external wifi usb that got me connected, so i will install using that and try try to figure out why my internal wifi is not working with this version of mint

before i installed i did install firmware-b43-installer on the live cd hopefully that will help