| old_nerd | |
| Jun 29 2017, 10:08 AM |
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| Jan 29 2020, 2:09 AM |
Despite the Broadcom Limited BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY being detected in my Old HP 6735s laptop [inxi -Fc 0] It's not picking up my wireless signal.
Wireless works under Mint XFCE and Ubuntu Mate - so the hardware is ok - installed Broadcom IEE 802 ...... 6.30.223.271 (as per hardware driver DoFlicky recommendation)
Rebooted and still no joy. All other updates installed.
PS: FIRST time reporting a bug - I assigned it to myself - is this in error? Is there more information I should be giving?
What's the output of this? (checking you have the right kernel/module loaded)
eopkg info linux-lts | head -n2; uname -a; eopkg info broadcom-sta | head -n2
Name : linux-lts, version: 4.9.32, release: 31
Linux l20170525 4.9.32-31.lts #1 SMP Thu Jun 22 04:35:56 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Installed package:
Name : broadcom-sta, version: 6.30.223.271, release: 120
Hope this is what you need - First bug report (and still a linux noob) so this whole process is a bit of a mystery to me.
@DataDrake, I have an old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Broadcom BCM4312 shown as the network controller after running lspci in Terminal.
I booted a Solus 3 Mate Live USB and my wifi wasn't listed.
I activated the driver in Hardware Drivers/DoFlicky and logged out and back in.
There were some wifi names listed but not my home wifi.
I booted a Peppermint 10 Live USB and my wifi was listed and connected fine with that Linux distro.
Can this be fixed for the Solus Live session ? Or would it work while connected to the internet via Ethernet cable ?
I booted a Solus 4.1 Mate Live USB on a Dell Inspiron 1545 and I saw this:
I had similar issue and i after installing the current linux header -and reboot- it was working. Just try it out.
@DataDrake that file shows an error when I open with Archive Manager, on my ThinkPad laptop with Solus 4.1 Mate.
Error:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I don't know what to do with that tar.gz file. Will Wi-Fi work in the Live USB session after running some Terminal commands ?
I'm guessing Wi-Fi on Solus would work after installing, then downloading the Wi-Fi driver via Ethernet.
Hi @DataDrake I don't know how to install the driver from the tar.gz file.
I was hoping it would work out of the box in the next iso refresh, maybe with Solus 4.2 ?