[SOLVED] wireless card not activating

I have a HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop that I put Zorin OS 5.2 on and it works wonderfully except for the wireless. I have a broadcom 4311 wireless card in. I have read some other post on installing b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer and having the broadcom STA drivers deactivated. Upon following those steps I still can not get my card to activate.

lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
07:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

sudo lshw -c network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:b6000000-b6003fff

Hi,

go to Control Center > Hardware > Addtional Drivers and try that first, what else have you tried??.

Regards Wolfman

Wolfman wrote:Hi,

go to Control Center > Hardware > Addtional Drivers and try that first, what else have you tried??.

Regards Wolfman

Good day WM! I would not recomend to enable the STA driver. The BCM4311 works only of the STA driver is de-activated.


@revkain
If you have done all the steps correctly and in the correct order i.e.:

i) De-activate the sta driver from additional drivers
ii) Reboot (very important).
iii) plug an ethernet cable, go to synaptics and download b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer.
iv) make sure that your wireless switch is set to "on".

Open terminal and write

Code:

sudo modprobe b43

and see if it works.

If it still does not work, then we need to check if the b43 driver is blacklisted.

Open terminal and write:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and search for the line that says : blacklist bcm43xx
Put a "#" sign in front of this line. i.e. the line should look like this

Code:

#blacklist bcm43xx

Save and exit.


Then open terminal and write again

Code:

sudo modprobe b43

and see if it works.


Also, reboot and see if you still get the wireless to work. If it does not you need to follow the steps below to get the b43 driver to load after each reboot.

Open terminal and write:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

at the end of the file that will open add the line

Code:

b43

save and exit.

the "sudo modprobe b43" worked, thank you so much, I am just now learning linux type systems.

Very glad you got it working but please make sure that you still have wireless activated after a reboot.
If not, follow the steps I explain above i.e.:

1) Make sure that the bcm43xx driver is not blacklisted, and
2) That the b43 driver is loaded after each reboot.

Do a reboot and let me know. Thanx.

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