Live USB Snapshot MX x64 October 2017 No Wifi Detected

[uncndl1]

I'm shutting down the 3E, and then putting the usb into my CF-53 so that persistence works.
I'll comment out the brcm80211 driver, but I have a question.
If it conflicts with wl, how do I comment out wl so there are no conflicts?

[richb]

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System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b1_x64 Horizon November 6, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A serial: N/A
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: F2A68HM-H v: x.x serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: FB date: 04/22/2015
CPU:       Quad core AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3100 MHz 1: 1900 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 1900 MHz 4: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.0-4-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
           version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.0-4-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: 40:8d:5c:0d:62:1b
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 60:e3:27:08:b6:6c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 820.2GB (9.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: ST3320820SCE size: 320.1GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 4.9G (36%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc5
           ID-2: /home size: 28G used: 3.9G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc6
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.01GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 6.8C mobo: N/A gpu: 7.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 243 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 2634.1/14988.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40 

[kmathern]

I'm shutting down the 3E, and then putting the usb into my CF-53 so that persistence works.
I'll comment out the brcm80211 driver, but I have a question.
If it conflicts with wl, how do I comment out wl so there are no conflicts?

Commenting out the brcm80211 blacklist entry probably won't do anything since there is no module by that name anymore, but it won't hurt anything.

I think /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf should be changed to what's shown below, add the wl entry to the end of the file.

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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

[uncndl1]

Okay, I made the changes as suggested but can not save the changes, messages says "can't open file to write"
Persistence is enabled on the usb drive, and other changes have been saved i.e. upgraded the system in package manager.
Appreciate the tip above for making code more readable. Remember, I have to take a screen shot of the system I'm trying to get wifi working. This means taking the usb drive in and out of my main computer to the 3E computer

[uncndl1]

I was able to blacklist wl in the Network Assistant and that did save. Editing things inside the file system did not

[kmathern]

Okay, I made the changes as suggested but can not save the changes, messages says "can't open file to write" ...

Are you making the changes as root and/or with sudo, or as a regular user?

Are you able to edit and make the changes with sudo nano like shown below? (press Ctrl+o to save your changes, Ctrl+x to quit)

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf

[kmathern]

If you're still unable to make the blacklisting changes to /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf, you might try removing the broadcom-sta-dkms package instead with:

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sudo apt-get purge broadcom-sta-dkms

It will remove wl driver (which you probably don't need) and the /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf file.



Then run the following to try to load the brcmsmac driver

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sudo modprobe -r brcmsmac ; sudo modprobe brcmsmac

I think you should be able to run both of those commands while running in a Live USB session on the 3E machine.

[kmathern]

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[tbuser48]

urncndl1 is on the road today. He and I have been working on the 3E for a while now. We've been talking about the 3E here (http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads ... 14/page-23).

Here is hwinfo.

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 $ hwinfo | grep bcm -i
  platform device: name = BCM2E44:00
    path = /devices/platform/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
    type = "(null)", modalias = "acpi:BCM2E44:"
  P: /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  E: DEVPATH=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  E: MODALIAS=acpi:BCM2E44:
  P: /devices/platform/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  E: MODALIAS=acpi:BCM2E44:
  E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=BCM43241 WLAN card
  E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=BCM43241 WLAN card
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
/devices/platform/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  Model: "Broadcom BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Device: sdio 0x4324 "BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Model: "Broadcom BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Device: sdio 0x4324 "BCM43241 WLAN card"

Sent from 3E #14 (1 of 4 that I have) via USB 802.11 dongle.

Thanks.

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$ cat /etc/lsb-release
PRETTY_NAME="antiX-17 Heather Heyer"
DISTRIB_ID=antiX
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17
DISTRIB_CODENAME=stretch
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="antiX 17"

[kmathern]

Here is hwinfo.

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 $ hwinfo | grep bcm -i
   E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=BCM43241 WLAN card
  E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=BCM43241 WLAN card
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
/devices/platform/80860F0A:00/BCM2E44:00
  Model: "Broadcom BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Device: sdio 0x4324 "BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Model: "Broadcom BCM43241 WLAN card"
  Device: sdio 0x4324 "BCM43241 WLAN card"

Hmm, the archlinux wiki says this about BCM43241:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/br ... t_detected

This device will not display with either lspci nor lsusb; there is no known solution yet. Please remove this section when resolved.