Wifi not working on my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, your welcome! I am glad to help.

[RDn6427]

Wildmanne39, my issue is similar to the many posts in this thread. Im hoping you can help me as well. I started a thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1834714

[spicetrader]

merveilleux, amigo!!

@wildemann39, I followed your instructions in post #47 (tinkering just a little, because I don't know where "Desktop" is), and in mere seconds, the icons flashed, and I was connected to the net via wifi. I'm sending this message from my firefox browser in Ubuntu on my new wifi connection.

for what it's worth, and there's not much to see here, here is the log of my installation:

cat $0

B43LOC=.

#Re: Wifi not working on my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.
#Hi, Down load this zip file to your jump drive then drag and drop the file to your desktop. Right-click it and select Extract Here. Open a terminal and do:
#Code:
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
#sudo cp Desktop/b43/* /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp ${B43LOC}/b43/* /lib/firmware/b43
sudo rmmod -f b43
sudo rmmod -f ssb
sudo modprobe b43
#make sure your wired connection is not connected even though it is not currently working. This should get your wireless working.
#Thank you
#Attached Files
# b43.zip (101.4 KB, 1 views)

[spicetrader]

@bkratz...

Thank you for your suggestion. I didn't use it because, candidly, the method proposed by wildmanne39 looked easier. I took what looked like the shortest route downhill, and it worked, which of course makes me feel very good. But you provided me with a fallback, which on closer examination looks like a good, easily applied choice.

Best wishes.

[bkratz]

@bkratz...

Thank you for your suggestion. I didn't use it because, candidly, the method proposed by wildmanne39 looked easier. I took what looked like the shortest route downhill, and it worked, which of course makes me feel very good. But you provided me with a fallback, which on closer examination looks like a good, easily applied choice.

Best wishes.

I am just glad you got it working!

[wildmanne39]

Hi, your welcome! I am glad I could help.

[sahilgrover1988]

me also facing same problem in pavillion 2000 ..... earlier wi fi was working fine on ubuntu but now a days it just runs on windows-7 and never goes on in ubuntu ...

[The CJMan]

Hi.
Had the same problem on my dv6000 but got it working, My problem now is that every time I restart the PC I need to do a sudo modprobe b43.
Maybe the answer was missed so could you please restate how to make b43 to auto load on startup.
I did try to place it in my system session startup as "modprobe b43" without the sudo as I thought it would be unnecessary to so sudo at the startup of the session but this did not work.

thanx

[bkratz]

Hi.
Had the same problem on my dv6000 but got it working, My problem now is that every time I restart the PC I need to do a sudo modprobe b43.
Maybe the answer was missed so could you please restate how to make b43 to auto load on startup.
I did try to place it in my system session startup as "modprobe b43" without the sudo as I thought it would be unnecessary to so sudo at the startup of the session but this did not work.

thanx

Is this what you tried to do? if not it should load it automagically for you

sudo su
echo b43 >> /etc/modules
exit

[Chhotu]

Hi,

I also have a dv6000 laptop, with 10.10 just installed. Wireless worked fine in 11.04 and in Windows, but not when I installed 10.10.

  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 06
       serial: 2c:27:d7:b4:f8:bc
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.34 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:45 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:c0404000-c0404fff memory:c0400000-c0403fff
  *-network
       description: Network controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0d:00.0
       version: 34
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=ndiswrapper latency=0
       resources: irq:17 memory:c4500000-c4501fff

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0  [Auto eth0] ----------------------------------------------------
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            r8169
  State:             connected
  Default:           yes
  HW Address:        2C:27:D7:B4:F8:BC

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           100 Mb/s

  Wired Properties
    Carrier:         on

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address:         192.168.1.34
    Prefix:          24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway:         192.168.1.254

    DNS:             192.168.1.254
    DNS:             195.241.77.55
    DNS:             195.241.77.58

0d:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:008b] (rev 34)

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: hp-wwan: Wireless WAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

and lsmod | grep b43 doesn't produce anything. The wireless toggle key doesn't do anything except turn bluetooth on and off. I've been trying to work this out for the past couple of hours and still haven't found a solution. Anyone? My wireless card is an Intel Centrino Wireless N1030. Loaaads of thanks in advance!