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[SOLVED] Wireless Troubles

moonlitwatcher

Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:24:34 am

Hello everyone!

I am pretty new to Zorin, and linux in general, and am having problems getting my wireless internet access to work.

I recently installed Zorin Core on an Inspiron 1501 laptop. This is a dual-boot with Windows Vista. In Vista my network adapters are listed as Broadcom 440x10/100 Integrated Controller, and Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card. I do have access to a wired connection. When I go to "Additional Drivers" under "System Settings" and activate the proprietary driver (Broadcom STA Wireless Driver) my "Enable Wireless" option (shown when clicking the networking icon in the panel bar) disappears.

I saw in a similar post that it might be helpful to you guys for me to enter the commands
lspci -nn
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all

so here is my output for that:
Code:
glenn@dave-Inspiron-1501:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38]
00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
00:13.1 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
00:13.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
00:13.4 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
00:13.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
08:01.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 01)
glenn@dave-Inspiron-1501:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for glenn:
  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:c0200000-c0203fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1d:09:ac:52:ea
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.12 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:21 memory:c0300000-c0301fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:1e:4c:73:34:7a
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.2.0-32-generic-pae firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
glenn@dave-Inspiron-1501:~$ sudo rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
glenn@dave-Inspiron-1501:~$


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! ^_^ Advanced Micro Devices

madvinegar

Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:15:15 pm

Hi. Your card is BCM 4311 that does not work with broadcom STA driver. It works with b43.

Plug the ethernet cable to get internet, open terminal and run the following two commands, the one after the other, and hitting <enter> after each command.
When you give the first command you will be asked for you password. Write it normally even if you don't see it typed. For security reasons the passowrd is not shown when typed.

Code:
sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree


Reboot and see if it works. :mrgreen:

moonlitwatcher

Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:49:56 pm

That worked! Thank you very much!! :D

madvinegar

Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:32:27 pm

Great! :)

madvinegar

Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:55:52 pm

What do you think I used to decorate my xmas tree this year...??? :mrgreen:

pika_ro

Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:03:52 pm

madvinegar wrote:Hi. Your card is BCM 4311 that does not work with broadcom STA driver. It works with b43.

Plug the ethernet cable to get internet, open terminal and run the following two commands, the one after the other, and hitting <enter> after each command.
When you give the first command you will be asked for you password. Write it normally even if you don't see it typed. For security reasons the passowrd is not shown when typed.

Code:
sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree


Reboot and see if it works. :mrgreen:


Thank you! It works for me too!
All good wishes to you!

madvinegar

Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:00:15 am

Two birds with one stone... :)