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missing wifi

bradwww

Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:51:37 am

i installed zorin on my 3rd machine and it did not detect the wifi card, can you tell me how to manually search/install the driver for it please?
dell wireless 1397 WLAN min-card rev 5.00
chipset: BCM4315 / BCM22062000
thanks!
brad

madvinegar

Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:36:48 pm

Can you please post back the result of the following terminal command?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

bradwww

Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:12:32 am

brad@hk:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4]
Kernel driver in use: r8169

thanks

madvinegar

Sat Jul 12, 2014 3:21:41 pm

Try this.
Plug an ethernet cable to get internet.
Open terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe -r wl
sudo modprobe wl

Wait 5-6 seconds and then check the network manager to see if you can pick up wireless networks.