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WiFi issue. No wireless

fdx

Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:00:27 am

Just installed on lenovo S10e

Cant get wireless network... the windows drivers wont work, there is no "additional drivers", I installed it but even if installation wa succesful that wasnt there after...
Tryed to install drivers same way as for ubuntu - didnt work...

Need help. How to do it?

Wifi is broadcom.

madvinegar

Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:47:45 am

Please post the results of the following commands

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all

fdx

Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:41:24 am

fdx@fdx-Lenovo:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
fdx@fdx-Lenovo:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0141 Acer, Inc
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2150 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046 Bluetooth Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
fdx@fdx-Lenovo:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for fdx:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:23:8b:40:b7:93
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.128 firmware=sb v3.04 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:44 memory:f0200000-f020ffff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f0403fff
fdx@fdx-Lenovo:~$ sudo rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

madvinegar

Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:09:08 am

Plug an ethernet cable to get internet and give this set of commands in terminal and then reboot to see if it works.

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

fdx

Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:09:23 pm

I had to reinstall module responsible for using windows wireless driver. (I found solution on ubuntu forum) works after that.

Thanks.

madvinegar

Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:29:24 pm

ndiswrapper...????
Ok, if it works you can leave it as it is then, however there is native linux driver for your card.