Wireless card not working with Linux Mint... - Networking

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So your laptop has funky touch-lights at the top - is the wireless disabled through this light? The wireless LED should be blue - if it is orange, touch it and it should turn blue.

What is the full output of the following command (run as root or sudo)?

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ifconfig

Jul 17 '12 #2

etho
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:72:4f:c3:b8
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0.B)
Interrupt:42 Base address:0x8000

lo
Link encap: Local Network
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/138 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB) TX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB)

Thanks so much for you help. I have fiddled with that switch quite a bit.. It's on and it's showing up as blue under my windows partition but it's orange on the mint partition.

Jul 18 '12 #3

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Expert Mod 4TB

So eth0/eth1 (anything that starts with eth) is short for "ethernet connection 0" or "ethernet connection 1" - in short, these are cabled connections.

My experience with Linux has what you're looking for as labeled as wlan0 - or "wireless LAN connection 0." So we're looking for a wlan entry in the ifconfig output.

With HP laptops the orange and blue lights at the top are actual hardware switches - you can turn them on or off by just touching them.

When Mint boots, are you able to touch the orange light and make it turn blue?

Jul 18 '12 #4

No... It will not turn blue with the switched turned on.

Jul 18 '12 #5

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I just checked the HP Drivers and Support page - there are no Linux drivers for this - where did you find the driver you installed or what procedure are you using?

Jul 18 '12 #6

When I went to Hardware --> Additional Drivers Mint detected the Broadcom STA wireless driver...

So there isn't a Linux driver for this wireless card? I'm confused.

Jul 18 '12 #7

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Let me look into it - just because there isn't one linked to HP's page doesn't mean there isn't one at all - it just means HP didn't put their own out there.

What I need to determine is if Mint is good at detecting wireless interfaces automatically, and how to troubleshoot broadcom wlan's.

Jul 18 '12 #8

Thanks so much :)I really appreciate all of your help on this matter.

Jul 18 '12 #9

I was wondering if you found out anything more about this wireless card issue?

Jul 19 '12 #10

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inxi -N

and that should tell us if it's 4311, 4312, 4313, or something else entirely.

Depending if it is one of the three above or not, there are two possible solutions I have found.

Jul 19 '12 #11

Card-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver:wl
Card-2: NVIDIA MCP67 Ethernet driver: forcedeth

Jul 19 '12 #12

I just fixed it... rfkill unblock all

Jul 19 '12 #13

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Awesome, glad you figured it out! From what I can see, that might not be persistent through a reboot, so if you get sick of putting that in every time, you can try the following (as your card is a 4312)

Linux - Configure Broadcom STA Wireless Drivers (via Tech1w.com)

Jul 20 '12 #14

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