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xboxhaxorz
Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:54:42 pm
I have downloaded the drivers and used the wireless driver installer it is now showing bcmwl6 as installed but i cannot connect, as it wont show any wireless connections in the connection bar it only shows wired
madvinegar
Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:39:29 pm
please post back the results of the following terminal commands (ctrl+alt+T)
lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all
xboxhaxorz
Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:18:41 pm
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.1.4-k duplex=full firmware=1.1-2 ip=192.168.1.8 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 memory:fdfc0000-fdfdffff memory:fdfff000-fdffffff ioport:ff00(size=32)
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fdafc000-fdafffff memory:fde00000-fdefffff
xboxhaxorz
Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:19:50 pm
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe9b:f46/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2002:46a8:84f3:e472::3/128 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:24612360 (24.6 MB) TX bytes:1817608 (1.8 MB)
Interrupt:20 Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:5724 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5724 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:487978 (487.9 KB) TX bytes:487978 (487.9 KB)
madvinegar
Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:48:03 am
BCM4321 works with the wl driver (as per the boradcom wiki).
First of all have you fully updated your system?
If not, plug an ethernet cable and give the following commands in terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgade
After the updates are finished and you restart your system, your wireless may already by working.
If not, plug an ethernet cable to get internet, open terminal and give the following 2 commands:
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe wl
Does your wifi now spring to life? (Did the blue light come up?) Wait 1 minute and then check from your network manager to see if you get the available networks.