Wi-Fi Glitch Workaround(No Ethernet needed)

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Wi-Fi Glitch Workaround(No Ethernet needed) Jul 29, 2020 22:28:19 GMT Hippytaff and ylee like this

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Post by magmafloof on Jul 29, 2020 22:28:19 GMT

So if you're like me you'll probably end up Installing Bodhi-Linux and for some reason your Wi-Fi won't work.[/div]

so you look online, and a good chunk o' the videos tell you to use Ethernet, those that don't are usually low quality.

Welp, I couldn't do ethernet since I don't got one, so I did this with the help of some nice People.

also idk where to put this step but

sudo rfkill list

to make sure a program that can block your wifi isn't installed

1:Check to see if you have Wi-Fi first

Always check first, so you're not wasting Time

you should know where to go from the startup page

2:Enter the "Terminology"
Now, you can just Copy N' Paste these for ease of time Xp

lspci

Then look for somethin' like this

01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Make sure you know what's installed

Then you paste

lspci -k

Yu look for the Network controller and you might or might not see this

01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

When I did it there was none, under the Network controller

No the ethernet is not the same

3:if you got no kernel go to this link

(btw, obviously you'll need another device to download it)

packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/bcmwl-kernel-source

download the one matching your system (mine was amd yours might be different)

anyways, download the .deb file to a external storage(Usb, SD Card, hecc, even a phone maybe)

go back to the linux PC and copy the media to your desktop via file manager

then back in terminal go and insert

cd Desktop

(It's case sensitive btw)
and then

sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb

you should get a notification in the top corner!

also when asking for a password you can't see what you're typing

hope this helps!

Last Edit: Jul 30, 2020 8:02:40 GMT by Hippytaff: Tags

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Wi-Fi Glitch Workaround(No Ethernet needed) Jul 30, 2020 8:04:36 GMT

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Post by Hippytaff on Jul 30, 2020 8:04:36 GMT

Thanks for that. It is a common issue with Broadcom chipsets. This will hopefully help people with the same chipset you have.

One thing I’d add to make finding out the chipset a bit easier is do

lspci | grep -i network

Again for new users it’s probably best to copy paste that as some characters are not what they seem. Grep will only return lines with network in them in this case. -i flag makes the grep filter/parse case insensitive. So case is ignored.

Last Edit: Jul 30, 2020 8:08:31 GMT by Hippytaff

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Wi-Fi Glitch Workaround(No Ethernet needed) Aug 23, 2020 15:07:33 GMT rcatbc likes this

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Post by ellaparker on Aug 23, 2020 15:07:33 GMT

Jul 29, 2020 22:28:19 GMT magmafloof said:

Then you paste

lspci -k

Yu look for the Network controller and you might or might not see this

01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

Hi! My result was different:

03?00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev03)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma

When I installed Bodhi, I selected the option to install proprietary drivers as I am installing it in a macbook. My take on that was it would work "out of the box", however the wi-fi icon didn't show on shelf (nor could I add it) and when I tried to connect to wi-fi (via Applications > System Tools > Network Connections) it didn't find any network. So, I continued to follow the instructions?

Jul 29, 2020 22:28:19 GMT magmafloof said:

When I did it there was none, under the Network controller

No the ethernet is not the same

3:if you got no kernel go to this link

(btw, obviously you'll need another device to download it)

packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/bcmwl-kernel-source

download the one matching your system (mine was amd yours might be different)

anyways, download the .deb file to a external storage(Usb, SD Card, hecc, even a phone maybe)

go back to the linux PC and copy the media to your desktop via file manager

then back in terminal go and insert

cd Desktop

(It's case sensitive btw)
and then

sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb

you should get a notification in the top corner!

also when asking for a password you can't see what you're typing

hope this helps!

I did it with i386 and got the terminal printed (just translated it from portuguese, so it might have errors):

dpkg: problem with dependencies prevent configuring bcmwl-kernel-source:i386:
bcmwl-kernel-source:i386 depend on linux-libc-dev
bcmwl-kernel-source:i386 depend on libc6-dev

I tried to install these dependencies with

sudo apt-get install linux-libc-dev libc6-dev

It shows that they are already installed and updated.

Is there anything I've done wrong?

UPDATE

Okay, I tried to do it without Ethernet connection because I wasn't sure I still had the cable. Turns out I find it and installed the driver from terminal. I used the following commands:

ubuntu-drivers list

To make sure there was something to be installed. And:

sudo ubuntu-drivers install

It installed and worked out of the box

Last Edit: Aug 23, 2020 16:00:00 GMT by ellaparker: Update