Drivers for Dell Latitude wireless adapter
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Hi dos2unix,
Yes, I have BCM4324, and I'm able to connect by wire. However Wifi does not work, for some reason.
I'm new to Linux. My daughter gave me this laptop, with Windows 7, which I have not been able to boot up; so I decided this would be a good time to give the Linux, I downloaded a few months ago, a try. I have several Windows computers, so I'm not stuck.
........ john
Yes, I have BCM4324, and I'm able to connect by wire. However Wifi does not work, for some reason.
I'm new to Linux. My daughter gave me this laptop, with Windows 7, which I have not been able to boot up; so I decided this would be a good time to give the Linux, I downloaded a few months ago, a try. I have several Windows computers, so I'm not stuck.
........ john
Hi jglen,
That's odd. On my computer your commands show up as sudo 1shw -c network and 1spci; but Linux suggested I use lspci instead of 1spci. However, when I copy and paste what your commands into my reply the 1s shows up as a ls .......... very odd.
In any event when I use ls instead on 1s I get blocks of information from both commands. The problems is that I have no idea how to copy and paste these into the forum post.
Thanks,
......... john
That's odd. On my computer your commands show up as sudo 1shw -c network and 1spci; but Linux suggested I use lspci instead of 1spci. However, when I copy and paste what your commands into my reply the 1s shows up as a ls .......... very odd.
In any event when I use ls instead on 1s I get blocks of information from both commands. The problems is that I have no idea how to copy and paste these into the forum post.
Thanks,
......... john
It is supposed to be lowercase L's.
Do you have an Xwindows GUI desktop on your linux system?
Copy and paste in Linux is exactly the same as in Windows.
Highlite whatever you want copied, press the Crtl and the C keys at the same time.
Click your mouse into the window (the forum message you are posting a reply into)
and press the Crtl and the V keys at the same time.
If for some reason you cannot paste the output, at least type in the line that is similar to..
09:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
You should at least one line (maybe more) that says Network controller or Wireless
in it somewhere.
Do you have an Xwindows GUI desktop on your linux system?
Copy and paste in Linux is exactly the same as in Windows.
Highlite whatever you want copied, press the Crtl and the C keys at the same time.
Click your mouse into the window (the forum message you are posting a reply into)
and press the Crtl and the V keys at the same time.
If for some reason you cannot paste the output, at least type in the line that is similar to..
09:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
You should at least one line (maybe more) that says Network controller or Wireless
in it somewhere.
Hi dos2unix,
Oops! I thought it was a "1".
Here's what I copied. I hope it's what you want. I'm not at all familiar with Linux. (No, Windows 7 is on this computer, but it doesn't work.)
Thanks for your help.
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:65:43:ec
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.271 (r587334) latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f5500000-f5503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: enp11s0
version: 10
serial: f0:4d:a2:82:fa:1e
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.137 firmware=5761e-v3.73 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:28 memory:f2d10000-f2d1ffff memory:f2d00000-f2d0ffff
Oops! I thought it was a "1".
Here's what I copied. I hope it's what you want. I'm not at all familiar with Linux. (No, Windows 7 is on this computer, but it doesn't work.)
Thanks for your help.
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:65:43:ec
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.271 (r587334) latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f5500000-f5503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: enp11s0
version: 10
serial: f0:4d:a2:82:fa:1e
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.137 firmware=5761e-v3.73 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:28 memory:f2d10000-f2d1ffff memory:f2d00000-f2d0ffff
I think this is what we were looking for.
Do you have wpa_supplicant installed and NetworkManager-wifi.
After these are installed... I would reboot.
After this, what is the output of
nmcli con show
Also I see you have...
logical name: wlp2s0
So I would think you could also do a...
nmcli dev wifi list
If you see the wifi networks, I can tell you how to connect.
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I think I found a reference or two that may help, but which version of Mint are you using? They both may be a "bit" dated:
tutorialforlinux.com
The second one is for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu and Linux Mint are very similar to each other.
Step-by-step - Broadcom BCM43224/BCM43225 Driver Ubuntu 18.04 Installation Guide • tutorialforlinux.com
GNU/Linux Ubuntu 18.04 Installing Broadcom BCM43224/BCM43225 Driver Guide Hi! The linked Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Broadcom BCM43224/BCM43225 Wi-fi/Bluetooth Driver for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic LTS GNU/Linux. The Package Provides the Source Code for the wl Kernel Modules and...
tutorialforlinux.com
The second one is for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu and Linux Mint are very similar to each other.
Hi dos2unix/jglen,
Here's what I got on the two commands you recommended.
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
wpasupplicant/now 2.4-0ubuntu6.2 i386 [installed,upgradable to: 2.4-0ubuntu6.6]
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $ sudo apt list --installed |grep wifi
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $
I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 'Sylvia' "Cinnamon 32-bit"
Thanks,
........ john
Here's what I got on the two commands you recommended.
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
wpasupplicant/now 2.4-0ubuntu6.2 i386 [installed,upgradable to: 2.4-0ubuntu6.6]
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $ sudo apt list --installed |grep wifi
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
shinnen@shinnen-Latitude-E5410 ~/Desktop $
I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 'Sylvia' "Cinnamon 32-bit"
Thanks,
........ john
captain-sensible
Well-Known Member
you mean dispense with sudo for a while and use # (root)?
What happens when you do :
and enter password (hopefully once)
What happens when you do :
Code:
sudo suand enter password (hopefully once)
captain-sensible
Well-Known Member
think i was out on context :^(
It should only ask if elevated permissions are required ... such as with apt. And it should. You can go into an extended elevated permissions session, at your own risk with sudo -i.
But don't do that.
Try this, as that second reference was pretty bad:
Code:
sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkmsOpen the Muon package manager (should be installed by default). At the top bar select Settings -> Configure Software Sources -> (enter your password when prompted) -> (in the Software Source dialog window, under the Ubuntu Software tab) -> Check (the box for) Community-maintained free and open-source Software (universe). Then select the Close button.
