No Wifi Connection--Solved

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towwire
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No Wifi Connection--Solved

#1 Post by towwire »

Installed antiX-16_64 on a HP pavilion laptop and no wifi, can connect with wired connection. I did put in and old Mepis 12 beta disk and it find wifi and will connect OK.

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towwire@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-16_x64-full Berta Cáceres 26 June 2016
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Pavilion zv5200 (PR471UA#ABA) v: F.35
           Mobo: Compal model: 08A0 v: 32.42
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.35 date: 04/28/2005
Battery    BAT1: charge: 46.4 Wh 77.0% condition: 60.2/66.0 Wh (91%)
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB
           speed/max: 800/2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 440 Go 64M]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x800@59.97hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 GLX Version: 1.2 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card NVIDIA nForce3 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
           driver: 8139too
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:0f:b0:4a:3f:76
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
           driver: b43-pci-bridge
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:90:4b:b7:42:d9
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (6.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK8025GA size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 12G used: 3.0G (27%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /home size: 60G used: 175M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 133 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 156.6/995.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.0 
towwire@antix1:~
$
The above shows "wlan0 state: down". In Synaptic I did a search for b43 and added "firmware installer for the b43legacy driver". That made no improvement in being able to make a connection and does not even show any wifi available when the laptop is within 2 feet of the wifi router. What else do I need to try??
Last edited by towwire on Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: No Wifi Connection

#2 Post by timkb4cq »

Try connecting with Ceni (In the control panel's network tab).
I couldn't get WICD to connect with my Realtek 8188 wireless dongle but Ceni did the trick.
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Re: No Wifi Connection

#3 Post by towwire »

Thanks Tim. That worked.
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