Wifi card not working (internal)

Truestory4u · 2015-06-02 06:21:18

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I have a Hp Pavilion Entertainment PC d4
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01989776

I can not get my internal wifi card working but it works with external usb wifi cards. I have read through the manual which is how I even got this far to begin with. I am just have no success. I need someone with more experience to help me. Please help me with this problem. the card oes not even seem to be detected.

Last edited by Truestory4u (2015-06-02 06:41:19)

jasonwryan · 2015-06-02 06:28:01

Please read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way; then tell us what card is in your laptop, the driver you have installed, what happens when you manually start it, etc...

Truestory4u · 2015-06-02 06:43:18

[iwannaslack@kinux ~]$ lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [103c:137c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30f7]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
[truestory4u@kinux ~]$

[truestory4u@kinux ~]$ ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:26:22:9e:dd:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[truestory4u@kinux ~]$

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jasonwryan · 2015-06-02 06:48:39

1. Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

2. Please paste the output of `uname -a`.

3. Read the wireless page and work through it methodically.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-06-02 07:02:50

Have you installed the firmware for your device?

Have you blacklisted the non-used drivers?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … reless#b43

Truestory4u · 2015-06-02 07:26:34

jasonwryan wrote:

1. Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code
2. Please paste the output of `uname -a`.
3. Read the wireless page and work through it methodically.

[Truestory4u@kinux ~]$ uname -a
Linux kinux 4.0.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 22 03:05:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Have you installed the firmware for your device?
Have you blacklisted the non-used drivers?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … reless#b43

no I don't even know how I would even begin to go about that. I have a very basic installation of arch I was just fortunate to somehow have sound and with the help of yaourt some basic web browsers and such.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-06-02 07:30:32

Truestory4u wrote:

I don't even know how I would even begin to go about that.

Read the ArchWiki page I have linked (and read all the pages linked form there).

Truestory4u · 2015-06-02 07:38:42

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Truestory4u wrote:
I don't even know how I would even begin to go about that.
Read the ArchWiki page I have linked (and read all the pages linked form there).

When I tried to search for with pacman and could not find l b43-firmwareAU so I used yaourt. I think I found it but it had warrnings unsupported and dangerous.

ugjka · 2015-06-02 07:43:19

1> Follow this wiki page and install the appropriate firmware. (Make sure to check whether you need LP-PHY version)

2> Blacklist b43legacy kernel module.

3> Add that blacklist file to the FILES section in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

4> Add b43 module to modules-load.d

5> Run sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

6> Reboot

If it doesn't work, try sudo modprobe b43.

Also make sure you have iw, wpa_supplicant and a network manager installed.

Truestory4u · 2015-06-02 08:05:07

ugjka wrote:

1> Follow this wiki page and install the appropriate firmware. (Make sure to check whether you need LP-PHY version)
2> Blacklist b43legacy kernel module.
3> Add that blacklist file to the FILES section in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
4> Add b43 module to modules-load.d
5> Run sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
6> Reboot
If it doesn't work, try sudo modprobe b43.
Also make sure you have iw, wpa_supplicant and a network manager installed.

I'm such a newb it's sad. I am going to format it and reinstall just the broadcam drivers. Despite my extreme fails I learn alot from you guys.

ugjka · 2015-06-02 08:14:15

Reinstalling everytime you don't understand something is not a solution... You need to clarify where exactly you get stuck, what parts you don't understand so that we can help you.

Mr.Elendig · 2015-06-02 09:18:33

Just install b43-firmware from aur and reload the b43 module. Problem solved.

ugjka · 2015-06-02 09:48:53

That should work too, I don't know why I made it so complicated

hotpepperguy · 2015-06-02 13:48:11

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Just install b43-firmware from aur and reload the b43 module. Problem solved.

This is what I did on my old HP laptop with a broadcom wireless chipset. Works beautifully. So much simpler than the manual install that became customary every time I tested a different distro. Since you're already set up with yaourt, it should be a cakewalk.

Last edited by hotpepperguy (2015-06-02 13:48:35)

archgeesk · 2015-06-05 07:39:07

yes indeed installing b43-firmware from the AUR fixes it for me as well
if you want, you can see my post about this as well for more detailed instructions about how to do that; also had trouble installing b43 driver; now it's fixed.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198246 EDIT: it's quite probable you need to load the module as well, which isn't included in the instructions but should be

 modprobe b43

you can also see the AUR wiki page on how to install packages from the AUR; I basically followed their instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository.
or quite possibly you already got it working?

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