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Wifi Connection with old Acer laptop - makatta - 12-07-2016
Alright, I'm a new Linux user and can't be happier with how Linux Lite has breathed new life into my formerly unusably slow laptop...
EXCEPT, I can't get the wireless to show up.
After trying to find new drivers (I didn't) I've done a bit of snooping around here for solutions and ran rfkill and got the following:
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Which says to me that my Wireless LAN should be working, right? Yet when I click my internet connections, the wired option is the only one that appears.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
If it helps the output from inxi -n is:
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 00:16:d4:a8:c7:e5
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
driver: b43-pci-bridge
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Re: Wifi Connection with old Acer laptop - makatta - 12-07-2016
(01-08-2016, 01:30 PM)Joseph link Wrote: enter in terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
Have to do this every time I updgrade Linux Lite on our Dell Latitude D620s for work.
Hope this helps
AAaaaand, now I'm embarassed. Maybe I should have read more of the "Solved" threads before starting my own.
This worked. Nevermind!
Re: Wifi Connection with old Acer laptop - Valtam - 12-07-2016
Thank you
