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Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2014, 05:51:10 PM »
 

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Read the previous link in my last post, as well as the directions posted.

Now with that said, lets go a little deeper.. There is a section on this site called "Switching between drivers"

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Read as much of it as you can, but basicly... after an update you need to run :

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lshw -c network
and look for the section that looks like this:

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configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=666.2 ip=192.168.1.6 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
if you dont see driver=b43 try running

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sudo modprobe b43
And waiting for the wireless to kick in, if this doesnt work try to post the entire contents of the lshw command here. (I'm sorry this is so hard with no networking when it goes wrong)

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Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2014, 05:44:03 PM »
 

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How comfortable are you with kernel modules?

About as uncomfortable as peeing next to someone who keeps looking at me.
 

Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2014, 05:40:40 PM »
 

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Might take a little debugging of sorts sadly, when you run and update we need the output of the command
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lshw -c network
You have to understand i do not own all the hardware on earth to test this myself... you can also read over this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#b43%20-%20Internet%20access

notably the section with
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sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb
sudo modprobe b43

Basicly... looks like you DO have the drivers, but they may be somehow disabled.

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Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2014, 05:34:00 PM »
 

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Well, my wireless is working at the moment. In the first post, I was saying I had to reinstall LL to get it to work again. If I run those commands now, what good will it do? I sure don't want to update or do anything to LL if it's working :D Should I install updates then do those commands or what do you think?
« Last Edit: November 01, 2014, 05:38:26 PM by Kalifornia »
 

Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2014, 05:30:52 PM »
 

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You will need to be connected online to do this.
Run these commands (one at a time, and wait until they complete it may take a considerable amount of time each time)
Last command being rebooting... which will hopefully have your wireless working nicely. You should be able to run updates from that point without issue.

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sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

sudo reboot

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Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2014, 05:20:50 PM »
 

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Sure thing.

Copied ouput:

*-network:0             
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:19 memory:dfdfe000-dfdfffff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:12:3f:f7:43:ed
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:20 memory:dfdfd000-dfdfdfff ioport:df40(size=64)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a4:33:95:a1
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=666.2 ip=192.168.1.6 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
 

Re: Installing Updates
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2014, 05:09:23 PM »
 

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Before any directions can be given (it may be a simple fix) can you type in a terminal:

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lshw -c network
and post the entire output here.
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[SOLVED]Installing Updates
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2014, 04:20:30 PM »
 

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After successfully installing LL last night, I installed updates. Upon wakening and booting up, I lost my Wi-Fi, of course. It's a Linux thing. I knew I shouldn't have updated because that usually causes something to break. :)

My question is this, after reinstalling LL because I couldn't get the Wi-Fi to work after trying many things I found online, what updates should I do to keep from breaking this Broadcom Wi-Fi? Should I even update LL at all? I can't connect this laptop to Ethernet, so a wired connection is out of the question.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it... is that the best thing to do here, or is there a way to update only the necessary things without killing my Wi-Fi? I appreciate any feedback you guys have here.

Thanks!
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