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(SOLVED) Wireless network issues

admsmarcus

Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:56:40 pm

I installed Zorin Os 9 lite on my Compaq Presario V2000. Everything is working so far. I am having problems getting my wireless network card to work. I tried finding drivers, but nothing has worked. Can anybody help?

madvinegar

Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:45:55 pm

Can you please post here the results of the following terminal commands?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all
lsmod

admsmarcus

Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:37:47 pm

marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3091]
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
05:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN [103c:1355]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ isusb
No command 'isusb' found, did you mean:
Command 'lsusb' from package 'usbutils' (main)
isusb: command not found
marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for marcus:
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:36:05:e9:c3
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.92 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:18 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c0208000-c02080ff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:05:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
resources: irq:20 memory:c0204000-c0205fff
marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ sudo rfkill list all
marcus@marcus-Presario-V2000-EP377UA-ABA:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
zram 18032 1
snd_atiixp_modem 18670 0
hp_wmi 13702 0
snd_atiixp 19305 1
sparse_keymap 13708 1 hp_wmi
snd_ac97_codec 105709 2 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 85501 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
snd_page_alloc 14230 3 snd_pcm,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 25135 1 snd_seq_midi
b43 356470 0
snd_seq 55383 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
bcma 42043 1 b43
pcmcia 51828 0
rfcomm 53664 0
bnep 18895 2
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
bluetooth 342208 10 bnep,rfcomm
mac80211 546051 1 b43
snd_timer 28584 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
dm_multipath 22402 0
yenta_socket 40201 0
scsi_dh 14458 1 dm_multipath
joydev 17101 0
pcmcia_rsrc 18319 1 yenta_socket
cfg80211 409394 2 b43,mac80211
snd 60939 11 snd_ac97_codec,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_seq_midi
serio_raw 13230 0
k8temp 12842 0
pcmcia_core 22328 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
binfmt_misc 13140 1
soundcore 12600 1 snd
i2c_piix4 17723 0
shpchp 32128 0
parport_pc 31981 0
ppdev 17391 0
lp 13299 0
mac_hid 13037 0
parport 40836 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror 21756 0
dm_region_hash 20121 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18072 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
pata_acpi 12886 0
radeon 1420614 2
psmouse 91329 0
8139too 32571 0
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 radeon
ttm 72725 1 radeon
8139cp 27171 0
drm_kms_helper 48868 1 radeon
video 18903 0
ssb 51854 1 b43
mii 13654 2 8139cp,8139too
pata_atiixp 13058 2
drm 244037 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
wmi 18673 1 hp_wmi
ati_agp 13177 0

madvinegar

Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:52:43 pm

Try this:
Download from here the b43 package: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2tjz9jnj9xw5xb/b43.tar.gz
(I have uploaded it onto my dropbox account).
As soon as it is downloaded, go to your Downloads folder to find it (it's named b43.tar.gz).
Right click on it and select "extract here". A new folder will be created named "b43".
Open terminal (ctrl+alt+T) and write the following commands, the one after the other, pressing <enter> after each one:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp /home/$USER/Downloads/b43/* /lib/firmware/b43
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

Wait 5-6 seconds and your wireless should start working.
A reboot may be required.

admsmarcus

Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:12:51 pm

Thanks it worked.

madvinegar

Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:45:17 am

Glad I helped my friend.

Swarfendor437

Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:48:16 pm

Needless to say, another 120 blue jewels to madvinegar! ;) :D