Wifi with a Broadcom 4306 on HP Pavillion 5202 - Page 3

zbrown1029 · posted: 2011-04-12 18:56

Thanks for the support Rok, I will def post my resolution when I get it working.

Anti- removed b43-installer, then installed it again. I still show no file in /etc/modprobe.d for b43. I made a file with the name, taking a shot at it anyways. Ceni sees the interface wlan0, just get nothing when I scan for a wifi to connect to. I am sitting 5ft from my own router w/wifi. There is no security on it, and the ESSID is not hidden. dont know what to do, this was the main reason why I abandoned Debian when I first tried Linux. No Wifi means a pointless laptop

oldhoghead · posted: 2011-04-12 19:06

zbrown,

Did you do as root in terminal

modprobe b43

and then restart ceni

cheers,
ohh

zbrown1029 · posted: 2011-04-12 19:45

I finally created my own file"b43.conf" and now wlan0 disappeared. I tried ifconfig wlan0 up.....and it said no such device. Ceni only showing eth0

rokytnji · posted: 2011-04-12 20:00

Ya know. Ceni never played well with me on my EEEPCs . That was why I went with Wicd.

My reasons were different. I got 100% cpu usage using ceni till it loaded after a few minutes of lockup. Then like you it would not see my IP and I run a open unencrypted network also like you. I would even have wlan0 showing and it would not pick up anything when searching. So Wicd for me. If deciding to try Wicd. Make a new user called"demo". It helps with installs and upgrades (for some mystical reason). Otherwise wicd will break.

zbrown1029 · posted: 2011-04-12 20:09

put file back and back to where we were

iwconfig shows

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lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

rokytnji · posted: 2011-04-12 20:15

Try

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#  ifconfig wlan0 up

then

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# dhclient wlan0

my /etc/resolv.conf says

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domain Belkin
search Belkin
nameserver 192.edited by me

my usb wireless on this desktop is

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#lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter

Damn I wish I knew how to screw with Broadcom stuff. __{{emoticon}}__

zbrown1029 · posted: 2011-04-13 01:08

WOW!! I was searching for a solution to my problem. If anyone gets their wifi up to the point that they can see their driver and card......tell them to push the Wifi button on their laptop. LMAO.....never thought it would be that simple, because it never worked in Ubuntu. Thank you all for the help, here is the site that gave me the idea

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rokytnji · posted: 2011-04-13 02:30

You mean we have been busting our humps over a hotkey for wireless?
It was turned off?
Eureka __{{emoticon}}__

zbrown1029 · posted: 2011-04-13 02:41

I know, I felt like a real moron when I tried it. My wife just shook her head. When I was using Ubuntu, the hotkeys and the"Start Menu" key didnt work. Anti's idea of uprading to Antix11 is what worked. I just had to push the button to recieve anything on scans. thanks again.

gtobill · posted: 2014-09-15 15:56

plvera wrote:It looks like your card is being recognized. Did you try ceni to set up wireless?
I don't remember where it is in control center, but in a terminal as root (type su; followed by password), type: ceni
Hopefully your card will show up and you can configure wireless then.

Good luck!

Pedro

I have a couple of Pentium M Dell Latitude D600'2 non-pae with Broadcom cards. I've gone through the hours of frustration many others have in getting connected until I came to Perdo's post.

"ceni" is brillant! 4 key stokes the session ran and I was connected.

A few questions: is there something similar for the Ethernet connection?
is there something similar to ceni for Ubuntu?
and a bit off topic.... is there a way to get the Gcompris educational suite on AntiX?

Thanks

fatmac · posted: 2014-09-15 17:27

As root, apt-get install gcompris

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(Does ceni not configure ethrnet(?), my adapter gets shown when I set up my wifi.)

P.S. Wicd does not work for me on AntiX, I always use ceni for configuring my wifi.

rokytnji · posted: 2014-09-15 19:08

is there something similar to ceni for Ubuntu?

Ceni is a aptosid application.
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You are welcome to look though, for Ubuntu in

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fatmac · posted: 2014-09-16 08:30

If my memory serves me right, ceni is a perl program, so should work on just about any distro.