HP Mini 110-1046NR Wireless problems

[james17]

complete noob when it comes to Ubuntu, want to get wireless on the laptop but it says firmware missing. If you all would please walk me through very detailed instuctions. Thanks Ubuntu peoples.

[chili555]

We'll be glad to help. We are going to use the terminal a bit; it allows us to gather a lot of detailed data in a hurry. First, let's find out what wireless card you have. Open Applications > Terminal (or Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and run and post:

lspci -nn

Feel free to trim away any lines that are not your wireless card.

Can you walk your Mini over to the router and get an ethernet connection if we need to download something? We might be able to fix this in quick order!

[james17]

thanks a lot Chili555, is this what i was looking for?

1:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

[chili555]

Exactly, although it may turn out to be a challenge. Your device is claimed by two different drivers. I'm not quite sure which is best yet. Let's try one and blacklist the other and see if we coax your device to life. Open the terminal and do:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

The text editor will open. Add two lines at the end.

blacklist b43
blacklist ssb

Proofread carefully, save and close gedit. Now hook up the ethernet cable, get a connection and do:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

After it's done, detach the ethernet cable, reboot and tell us how your wireless is working.

NOTE: Blacklisting ssb may not be prudent if your ethernet card is a Broadcom card using b44 and ssb. Please check:

lspci -nn

Is your ethernet card a Broadcom?

[bkratz]

@Chili, The fix for that particular card is in the stickies in post #1

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604868

[chili555]

@Chili, The fix for that particular card is in the stickies in post #1

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604868

What? You think I should read the stickies? Read someone else's post except yours?? Outrageous!!

Seriously, james17, forget everything I said above and hook up the ethernet and do:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

Reboot and tell us if your wireless is a beautiful thing.

Thanks, bkratz!

[james17]

james@james-HP-Mini-110-1000:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
[sudo] password for james:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

?? hah

[chili555]

Are you on line with an ethernet connection?

[james17]

yea...

[josephmills]

the firmware is a 3rd party peice of software you need to go to synaptic package manager then go to Setting-->Repositories then make sure all are ticked see pic then close out of everything and open your terminal and type in

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

then go back and do what chili555 says