Compaq Pesario c502us can't enable wifi

**Hadaka** · March 16th, 2013

@Varunendra,stepping lightly in and out.

Hi, for your wireless driver, copy and paste
the following..

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe b43

thanks.

**Prestonodom** · March 16th, 2013

no luck

**Hadaka** · March 16th, 2013

hi please do..

Code:

lsmod
rfkill list all

post the results
thanks.

**Prestonodom** · March 16th, 2013

just kidding...after restarting twice it works just fine. amazing how something so agrivating for me was such a sinch for someone else.. thank you so so much my friend!

**Hadaka** · March 16th, 2013

Good, now take the time to mark this Solved.
use thread tools or edit the title and mark
SOLVED.

**varunendra** · March 16th, 2013

Originally Posted by Hadaka

@Varunendra,stepping lightly in and out.

No problem.
Solving problems is the purpose of the forums and so I believe stepping in is good if the approach is going to be same and we are sure we are making the process fast

Originally Posted by Hadaka

Good, now take the time to mark this Solved.
use thread tools or edit the title and mark
SOLVED.

@ Prestonodom,
Follow the 'see how' link in my signature to see how to mark threads as SOLVED.
Thanks!

**Prestonodom** · March 18th, 2013

It only worked for 2 days and quit. Back to square one again.

**varunendra** · March 18th, 2013

Originally Posted by Prestonodom

It only worked for 2 days and quit. Back to square one again.

Please post -

Code:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
rfkill list all
lsmod
dmesg | grep -ie firm -e b43 -e network

**Prestonodom** · March 18th, 2013

Code:

venom@venom-Presario-C500-RQ335UA-ABA:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [103c:1363]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
--
08:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30a5]
    Kernel driver in use: 8139too

Code:

venom@venom-Presario-C500-RQ335UA-ABA:~$ rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Code:

venom@venom-Presario-C500-RQ335UA-ABA:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
joydev                 17394  0 
snd_hda_codec_conexant    52560  1 
coretemp               13362  0 
hp_wmi                 13653  0 
sparse_keymap          13659  1 hp_wmi
snd_hda_intel          33029  3 
snd_hda_codec         116477  2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13277  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                81124  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi           13133  0 
microcode              18396  0 
snd_rawmidi            25426  1 snd_seq_midi
i915                  470817  3 
snd_seq_midi_event     14476  1 snd_seq_midi
drm_kms_helper         47459  1 i915
psmouse                91022  0 
drm                   240232  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit           13317  1 i915
snd_seq                51594  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
serio_raw              13032  0 
lpc_ich                16993  0 
snd_timer              28932  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14138  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
b43                   351542  0 
mac80211              475546  1 b43
ssb_hcd                12782  0 
snd                    62675  15 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
cfg80211              181041  2 b43,mac80211
soundcore              14636  1 snd
bcma                   34573  1 b43
snd_page_alloc         14109  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
parport_pc             32115  0 
ppdev                  12850  0 
rfcomm                 38104  0 
bnep                   17791  2 
wmi                    18745  1 hp_wmi
bluetooth             189585  10 rfcomm,bnep
video                  19117  1 i915
mac_hid                13078  0 
lp                     17456  0 
parport                40931  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
hid_generic            12485  0 
usbhid                 46054  0 
hid                    82511  2 hid_generic,usbhid
8139too                23312  0 
8139cp                 26760  0 
ssb                    50757  2 b43,ssb_hcd

Code:

venom@venom-Presario-C500-RQ335UA-ABA:~$ dmesg | grep -ie firm -e b43 -e network

**varunendra** · March 18th, 2013

The outputs show at least you are not at square one, some different square perhaps.

Please follow the 'Wireless Script' link in my signature and do what the linked post asks to do.

Thanks.