Zorin 6.3 & Wifi

**kkoz83** · August 6th, 2013

Hello everybody, how are you?

Yes this is an Ubuntu forum and I'm asking about Zorin but I'm doing it here because
1) I can't register into Zorin's forum because of an unknown e-mail issue
2) Zorin states it is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

So my problem - I can't get WiFi. There's no icon on the taskbar but when I turn the laptop on, a pop-up stated "disconnected" with what looks like the WiFi icon next to the words.
Ethernet has no problem & there's nothing found when I check for additional drivers.

I found the following code:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all

Should I do that?

**joeymac2011** · August 6th, 2013

If you can run those commands through and attach it. That'd be great.*Just out of curiosity, is there a hardware switch that enable/disables the wireless adapter?

**kkoz83** · August 6th, 2013

I'll run it Wednesday & yes there's a physical switch but I'm 99.9% sure it's in the ON position. By the way, it's an Acer Aspire 5100-5840.

**kkoz83** · August 7th, 2013

janusz@janusz-Aspire-5100-5840:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
janusz@janusz-Aspire-5100-5840:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc Orbicam
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:007d Microsoft Corp. Notebook Optical Mouse
janusz@janusz-Aspire-5100-5840:~$ lshw -c network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:06:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:d4:cc:a6:e3
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.108 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:21 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:b0202000-b02020ff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=wl latency=64
resources: irq:22 memory:b0200000-b0201fff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
janusz@janusz-Aspire-5100-5840:~$ sudo rfkill list all

**kkoz83** · August 7th, 2013

WiFi switch is ON (light is also on).

**Cheesemill** · August 7th, 2013

Thread moved to Other OS/Distro Support.

**kkoz83** · August 8th, 2013

hello? anybody? joeymac2011?

**joeymac2011** · August 10th, 2013

Hi mate,

It looks like you have the incorrect driver installed.

Infomation can be found at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/...ported_devices

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Let me know how you go.