need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adapter

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need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adapter

Post by petyar »

hi guys,

I'm new to linux and just have installed mint mate 17.3 on my dad's old dell notebook.
everything works fine except the wifi. I've searched and tried out a lot but cannot get it started.

please help.

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sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py 
provides the following:

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

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Re: need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adap

Post by JeremyB »

Try

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Reboot
petyar

Re: need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adap

Post by petyar »

tried it out. still no wifi :(
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Re: need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adap

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sudo modprobe -r wl
sudo modprobe b43
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Re: need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adap

Post by petyar »

just tired out this tip:

http://linuxg.net/how-to-fix-broadcom-b ... inux-mint/

the problem is fixed. :)

nevertheless, thank you jeremyB
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Re: need help with wifi on old dell d 610 with broadcom adap

Post by JeremyB »

That info is old and some of it is not needed unless there is some other issue. There is a good chance there is a blacklist file yet, to find it

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for f in /etc/modprobe.d/*; do echo $f; cat $f | grep ssb; done
And you could have installed a package other than bcmwl-kernel-source, check with

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