OK, this is the first time I’ve been ready to hang it up trying to get a Dell laptop working under Linux. I’m about to nuke this thing and try a different distro if you guys can’t help.
First of all I do NOT have a wired LAN connection so I’m going to have to rely on a USB stick to move any files that need moving.
Let’s start at the beginning. I throw hwinfo --wlan --short into the terminal and it does nothing, where do I go from here?
Trying to go through the sticky here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/484106-Broadcom-firmware-is-needed-for-b43-but-I-have-no-network-an-easierwork-around
At step 4 I get “command not found”.
I throw hwinfo --wlan --short into the terminal and it does nothing, where do I go from here?
I think you get something, but please post as User:
/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net
You can send the output to a Textfile:
]/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net > net.txt
so you can post the output on another PC.
And you have an Broadcom Chip?
See here for Step4:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/514474-No-wireless-on-laptop?p=2759890#post2759890
Thanks for jumping in on this. Here’s what I get from those:
me@linux-1g9l:~> hwinfo --wlan --short
Absolute path to ‘hwinfo’ is ‘/usr/sbin/hwinfo’, so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).
and
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0019]
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma
It is possible that I’m just so frustrated that I’m missing something obvious. Overall I’m unhappy with this new Dell for a number of reasons. I wasted much time yesterday trying to get rid of Windoze 8 (which seems to be just a giant piece of addware)… 10 isn’t far behind, but I have a label printer for the business that isn’t supported in Linux and I need to keep some sort of windoze around to run that.
Yes, broadcom.
Step 4 yields:
linux-1g9l:/home/me/bcm43xx_firmware # zypper install -f b34-fwcutter
Empty destination in URI: hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1PHISON_USB3-part2
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a):
zypper install -f b43-fwcutter
not b34-fwcutter
2:
Empty destination in URI: hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1PHISON_USB3-part2
You have to plug in your Installation-Medium.
I would download and install broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-default for tumbleweed from Packman:
http://packman.links2linux.de/package/broadcom-wl
I noticeed I flipped the 43. This isn’t much better:
linux-1g9l:/home/me/bcm43xx_firmware # zypper install -f b43-fwcutter
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' metadata ------------------------\]
Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/repodata
/repomd.xml':
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: Could not resolve host: download.opensuse.org
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a):
Because of no network, you can ignore this…
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I can’t even figure out how to install an RPM package with this POS. Google turns up virtually nothing pertinent which is how I wound up here in the first place.
OK. It claims to have re-installed but after restart I’m not seeing any sign of wifi.
Mods, please close this thread. Linux Mint works right out of the box, I’ve wasted enough time here.