yatesl
June 1st, 2008, 08:52 AM
I'm on a Dell Inspiron 6400, with a Broadcom wireless card. My wireless internet connection isn't working, and after browsing the forums/looking about in Terminal, I've found the problem:
liam@liam-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7e:01:a6:e7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.22-14-generic latency=0 link=no module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:5b:d5:1c
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=1.01 duplex=half latency=64 link=no module=b44 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
As you can see, the card isn't even enabled. The hotkey to enable/disable it is Fn+F2. However, when I press that in Ubuntu, nothing happens. The light doesn't go off (if it's on originally), or come on.
Not sure if this is useful, but
liam@liam-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:5B:D5:1C
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:22
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19312 (18.8 KB) TX bytes:19312 (18.8 KB)
Thanks in advance if anyone can help.
Update: Disregard this, problem solved. I just hooked it up to the Internet via ethernet, and downloaded the restricted driver.
liam@liam-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7e:01:a6:e7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.22-14-generic latency=0 link=no module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:5b:d5:1c
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=1.01 duplex=half latency=64 link=no module=b44 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
As you can see, the card isn't even enabled. The hotkey to enable/disable it is Fn+F2. However, when I press that in Ubuntu, nothing happens. The light doesn't go off (if it's on originally), or come on.
Not sure if this is useful, but
liam@liam-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:5B:D5:1C
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:22
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19312 (18.8 KB) TX bytes:19312 (18.8 KB)
Thanks in advance if anyone can help.
Update: Disregard this, problem solved. I just hooked it up to the Internet via ethernet, and downloaded the restricted driver.