I Need Help Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers on LMDE 6 32bit | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

autumn trout Nov 15, 2024, 3:47 PM

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what the title said

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I Need Help Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers on LMDE 6 32bit

deft anvil Nov 15, 2024, 6:20 PM

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have you tried https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=57056 yet, will it work for your specific wireless chip?

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:09 AM

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deft anvil have you tried https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=57056 yet, will it w...

I have tried many things, I may have tried that one but I can not tell right now

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autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:44 AM

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My wifi adapter is BCM4311 8-2.11b/g WLAN

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I opened the link from wayback machine, that seems to be working

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My adapter is in the Supported devices

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but I need some help

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here it says I go to Software Sources and then select Third Party Software tab

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problem is this is 14 years ago

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and in LMDE 6 there is not Third Party Software tab on Software Sources

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 11:41 AM

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autumn trout I opened the link from wayback machine, that seems to be working

You just need the broadcom firmware for the b43 kernel module

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 12:58 PM

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can you translate that for a moment?

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:08 PM

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autumn trout can you translate that for a moment?

from https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx use sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:09 PM

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deft anvil from https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx use ```sudo apt install firmware-b43-instal...

tried that

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:09 PM

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that's really weird, says it should work for the BCM4311 family

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:10 PM

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well, if you want to, I can try again

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:11 PM

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autumn trout well, if you want to, I can try again

I mean shouldn't hurt but I think you might be dealing with a different problem all together, what's the underlying problem that not having the drivers is causing?

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:12 PM

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idk, all I know about linux is how to install it and installing wifi drivers on ubuntu, lubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:13 PM

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So is the wifi not working or you're not getting expected performance? Are you seeing any errors, either on installation of the drivers or?

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:15 PM

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well, I can say I did run the command

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and it didn't say it was installed, Idk how

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and it is installing

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installed, does it need a restart?

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I feel like it needs a restart

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yep, I'm gonna restart

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nop, restart didn't fix it

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I feel like I should mention the laptop does have a network button which if I press doesn't do anything really, it is one of those very very old windows vista 2007 HP G5000 laptops, pretty tough, even dropped in on the stairs and it didn't even scratch

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:21 PM

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I'm just a bit confused as to what is going wrong that the drivers are going to fix.

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:25 PM

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also. "lshw -C network" does find that it exits and it also does see it's what it is

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*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id:0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 01
width: 32bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:80400000-80403fff

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this is what the command shows related to the wifi card, I don't know if it is helpful but I though you might need it

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:29 PM

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right so the problem is that you can't get your computer to connect to wifi then?

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:30 PM

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yes

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it is just like I have no wifi adapter but the system as the command shows above can see there is a device connected and it's specs

deft anvil Nov 16, 2024, 4:36 PM

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This might be able to help you: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=404777

@barren canyon defiantly knows more about this stuff then me so he'll be able to give you better advice at this point since I don't think it's a simple driver install issue

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:38 PM

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autumn trout yes

Post results for dkms status; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:38 PM

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on it

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umm, it seems to be spamming dkms status on my terminal window

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is this normal @barren canyon

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:42 PM

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It should just spit out results for modules installed using dkms

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Try ctrl+c and see if it stops

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:43 PM

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nop

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:43 PM

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Try closing the terminal window

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:44 PM

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done

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:44 PM

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Open a new terminal and see if any results for grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:45 PM

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/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf:blacklist b43

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/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf:blacklist b43legacy

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:46 PM

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sudo apt remove broadcom-sta-dkms broadcom-sta-common then reboot

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:48 PM

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it showed a bunch of stuff including Package 'broadcom-sta-common' is not installed, so not removed but it also said under that The following packages will be REMOVED: broadcom-sta-dkms and then continued with the removal proccess

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restarting . . .

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reboot successful

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nothing has changed as far as I can see

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barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:54 PM

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sudo modprobe b43

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:56 PM

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done

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 4:56 PM

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What results for rfkill list

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 4:58 PM

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0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

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@barren canyon worked

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I just opened the network tab on the panel and it had Wireless and a switched

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I press the physical button on my control board of the laptop and it can now detect other networks

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 5:00 PM

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Good

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:00 PM

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thank you so much

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 5:00 PM

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The hard block:yes usually means a physical switch is blockint

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:00 PM

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barren canyon The hard block:yes usually means a physical switch is blockint

I think those are long gone since 2015

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 5:01 PM

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Some people still have old computers

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:01 PM

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Thank you very much

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 5:01 PM

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Have fun

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:01 PM

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can I ping you on another post? a small problem with sound

barren canyon Nov 16, 2024, 5:02 PM

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I am not good with sound issues, this computer doesn't even have speakers connected

autumn trout Nov 16, 2024, 5:03 PM

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alright then, it's actually no big deal, anyway, thanks again

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it is night for me so I'm gonna say goodnight

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@deft anvil thank you too for the time you put into this post

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