Live USB Snapshot MX x64 October 2017 No Wifi Detected

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Live USB Snapshot MX x64 October 2017 No Wifi Detected

#1 Post by uncndl1 »

I burned a snapshot of my current system for daily used Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 to use on a Panasonic 3E 2-IN-1 computer:
3E, Win8.1 Pro, Intel Atom Quad Core Z3745D 1.33GHz, 10.1" XGA 5-pt Multi Touch+Digitizer, 64GB, 2GB, Intel WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, Intel Education Software, Passive, Stylus, Thermal Probe, Snap-on Magnification Lens, With Keybobit ard Dock w/Keyboard Battery (K12 Education customers only)
I disabled Secure Boot and the 3E boots to Live MX 16 64 bit USB drive, however does not detect network devices.
Once booted, going into MX Tootls and choosing Network Assistant, there is NO hardware detected. I believe the wifi card to be a Broadcom 43241, which from my searches, should be supported by Broadcom 80211 Driver. Tabbing over to Linux Drivers in the Network Assistant, the brcm80211 driver is "blacklisted"
The loaded drivers are ndiswraper, brcmfmac, brcmutil, and fjes.
Is there a way to "un-blacklist" the brcm80211 driver?
This is in hopes to use the onboard wifi and run live linux MX16
Note, bcm43241 wifi card does NOT display when "lspci" or "lsusb".
I've already tried the 32 bit version of MX Linux 16, as well as the 32 bit version of antiX 16 and 17, however the keyboard does not load to test the distro.
AntiX 17_64 bit loads, and the keyboard works, however network wifi does not.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Much of my reading says to try a Windows wifi driver with ndiswraper (which is loaded), but I'm thinking it might be a matter of loading the proper driver that should be in the kernel.
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#2 Post by uncndl1 »

Note, "unblacklisting" the driver in Network Assistant does NOT work, it states could not load brcm80211
When I clik "OK" to that message, the brcm80211 driver listing goes away and hides somewhere
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#3 Post by asinoro »

Run these commands and show the results:

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nmcli radio wifi on ; rfkill list all

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sudo lshw -c network
and a screenshot of Linux drivers from MX network assistant
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Re: Live USB Snapshot MX x64 October 2017 No Wifi Detected

#4 Post by Shay2 »

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inxi -N
That will show the NIC information

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#5 Post by uncndl1 »

Since I can not get onto the internet to post a screen shot of these terminal commands, and I'm having problems shrinking a picture of the screen I'll just have to say that the only terminal command from the above suggestions that provided any information was "inxi -N" Network: Card: Failed to Detect Network Card!
The blacklisted broadcom drivers in network assistant are: b43, b43legacy, b44, bcma, brcm80211, brcmsmac, ssb
As above, the loaded drivers are: ndiswrapper, brcmfmac, brcmutil, fjes
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#6 Post by uncndl1 »

Here is the resized image of Terminal
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#7 Post by dolphin_oracle »

If I read your first post correctly, the 3e has intel wifi, not broadcom, so loading broadcom drivers is a dead end.

we need to know what the wifi card is supposed to be. The fact that its note being detected in any of your output leads me to wonder if 1. its working and 2. if its supported by open source drivers.

***edit*** looking at the panasonic specs, its I see where they list list broadcom wireless but they don't say what sort.
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#8 Post by dolphin_oracle »

if you want to just unblacklist the drivers, in /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf (I think that's the name), just comment out all of the modules, and add (uncommented) wl to the bottom (that's the proprietary driver, which also ships with mx and conflicts with the opensource ones.). reboot and see what happens.
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#9 Post by Shay2 »

When the keyboard is attached,
press Fn+F1 to activate the
wireless networking function .
https://www.mcs4kids.com/documents/3e_oi.pdf

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#10 Post by uncndl1 »

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
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