Live USB Snapshot MX x64 October 2017 No Wifi Detected

[dolphin_oracle]

Thank you, I'll try the above suggestions. Hoping it's supported by something.
Yes, wifi is/was working on windows
I'll try un blacklisting the brcm80211 driver which searches say should support the broadcom card 43241

you really should unblacklist all the opensource drivers, and then blacklist the "wl" driver, as my post above indicates. many of the broadcom opensource drivers depend on one another and if you still have one blacklisted, they may not load.

a manual

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modprobe brcm80211

might work even with the blacklist in place.

[uncndl1]

Please see screenshot from where Dolphin directed me.
How do I uncomment out brcm80221 driver?

[uncndl1]

Just realized another challenge. The usb drive has persistence (a good thing), however I have to put the usb drive into my CF-53 and boot it to make changes.
Then I have to shut down and put it into the 3E to see if wireless works. When booting the usb with the 3E computer, it does not have persistence option.
Maybe it's not really a challenge, if it works it will just stay with that computer anyway.

[uncndl1]

Putting into Terminal the code: modprobe brcm80211
shows: modprobe: FATAL: Module brcm80211 not found

[kmathern]

Putting into Terminal the code: modprobe brcm80211
shows: modprobe: FATAL: Module brcm80211 not found

It's probably brcmsmac instead of brcm80211.

https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

brcmsmac (brcm80211 prior to Linux 2.6.39) is a free and open source mac80211 driver, introduced in Linux 2.6.37. ...

I'd try manually unblacklisting it like d_o mentioned earlier.

[asinoro]

Can you post a screenshot of this:

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inxi -Fxz

[Shay2]

It should look something like this

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# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
#blacklist brcm80211
#blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb
blacklist wl

The # tells it to skip that item in the blacklist.

[kmathern]

It should look something like this

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# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
#blacklist brcm80211
#blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb
blacklist wl

The # tells it to skip that item in the blacklist.

The bcma blacklist entry should also be commented out because brcmsmac has it as a depend.

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$ modinfo brcmsmac 
filename:       /lib/modules/4.9.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/brcmsmac.ko
firmware:       brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
firmware:       brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
description:    Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver.
author:         Broadcom Corporation
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev18cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev17cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev11cl*
depends:        mac80211,bcma,brcmutil,cfg80211,cordic
intree:         Y
vermagic:       4.9.0-4-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions 

[uncndl1]

here's the output in Terminal from running "inxi -Fxz"

I'll go in and attempt unblacklisting and report back

[kmathern]

Can you post a screenshot of this:

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inxi -Fxz

@uncndl1, could you also post a screenshot of the output of this:

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lspci -vnn | grep 0200 | grep 14e4 -i

With that we might be able to make some changes to the BroadcomStatrtup script to detect your broadcom wireless device and get the right combination of blacklist entries for it.