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Title: Wireless not working
Post by: Zak on September 26, 2016, 03:28:40 AM

Hello!  I need some help with the wireless.  I was able to get it working on r9 with b43 and fwcutter (v. 1:018-2), but I am not getting a wireless connection with R10.  Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: blaze on September 27, 2016, 10:46:04 AM

Have you cross checked against these instructions?

https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: Zak on September 30, 2016, 02:12:09 AM

Thanks Blaze.  That page has a lot of info on it.  Any suggestions of where to start?

Also, my wired connection isn't working either.  Don't have a problem with R9 with that (or other Live distros I have been testing).  Any suggestions for that?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: blaze on September 30, 2016, 06:02:41 PM

Seriously I am a bit lost right now  :-\ Since neither eth0 or wlan0 is working... Did it work during the live session? Can you try to find the commands to start network from the command line?

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: Zak on October 01, 2016, 02:19:37 AM

Hey Blaze - this is the live distro I am dealing with.  I will try to find some commands and report back.  I would love to install it, but want to make sure things are good first.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: billwho on October 01, 2016, 02:40:53 AM

What is the result of:

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lspci | grep -i net


Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: Dan on October 01, 2016, 02:58:22 AM

I'll readily admit that this is beyond my experience; however, in addition to what has been presented here, have you tried...

http://planetwatt.com/newforum/index.php?topic=919.msg2460#msg2460

In my limited experience with wi-fi, I would also try installing wicd, and connect with it to see if that might possibly work. There have been times that wicd has worked for me when Network Manager hasn't. I'm not trying to take away from other's advice...just offering possible solutions.  :)

sudo apt-get install wicd

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: Zak on October 01, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Tonight when I started up the PC, the ethernet is working.  Yea!  One mystery solved, though I don't know what did it.

Regarding the output of lspci, for the wireless, it is Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/G Wireless LAN controller (rev 03).

About wicd, I am trying to install that and I am getting an Error that says:

E: Write error 0 write (28L No space left on device)
E: IO Error saving source cache
E: THe package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: blaze on October 01, 2016, 08:04:39 AM

Yey, wired is working, then there is hope. I checked at the page I linked to, and there in the middle ca it says that you (who got the BCM4306) need the "firmware b43 installer". I add also an ubuntu documentation link.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

From what kind of media and size are you running the live iso?

Title: Re: Wireless not working
Post by: billwho on October 02, 2016, 10:24:06 PM

This is for BCM4306 revision 3, which it looks like you have.
Is this the one you installed?

https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#Broadcom_43xx_wireless_devices
 (https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#Broadcom_43xx_wireless_devices)
Install the appropriate firmware installer package:
For devices with a BCM4306 revision 3, BCM4311, BCM4318, BCM4321 or BCM4322 chip, install firmware-b43-installer:

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apt-get install firmware-b43-installer