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No Wifi after install of 6.2 - Andysp123 - 03-08-2023
Dear All,
I have just installed Linuxlite 6.2 on my pals aged laptop a Lenovo G580 with an i3 processor and 8G Ram.
The wifi is a Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
No wifi network is showing up on the networking taskbar. When I checked in the Software and Updates section to see if I could install a driver it appears that it is already using Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source from kernel bcmwl-kernel-source (proprietary).
The wifi worked fine when booting from the Linuxlite USB but after the installation I have to connect an ethernet cable to the router. Any ideas on how to sort this out would be very welcome.
I am familiar with using terminal commands but this is my first go at using Linuxlite.
Re: No Wifi after install of 6.2 - stevef - 03-08-2023
Can you run a couple of terminal commands and post back the results please ?
To see what network adaptors are on the system
Code:
sudo lshw -C networkand assuming the wifi adaptor is there, check what wifi networks it sees
Code:
sudo nmcli dev wifi listRe: No Wifi after install of 6.2 - stevef - 03-08-2023
Also, did you see this post ? Don't know if it is relevant to your install.
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/network/ll-6-2-install-no-option-to-enable-wifi/
Re: No Wifi after install of 6.2 - Andysp123 - 03-09-2023
I have included the output from the two sets of commands below
sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for linuxlite:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8162 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: enp3s0
version: 10
serial: 3c:97:0e:5c:95:39
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx driverversion=5.15.0-52-generic latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:19 memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
linuxlite ~ sudo nmcli dev wifi list
linuxlite ~
I did look at the other post with a similar question and it is using the Broadcom wifi driver but it is not working for me as there is no wifi list. The wifi of the machine did work when we were trying out Linuxite from the booted USB but after the install it ceased to function.
Thankyou for getting back so quickly.
Andy
Re: No Wifi after install of 6.2 - Andysp123 - 03-09-2023
Dear All,
Have now gone to Menu>Settings>Install drivers and removed the Broadcom driver. Have rebooted and now the wifi is working.
Sorry should have tried this yesterday but had to go back to work.
Thankyou for all your help.
Andy