No Wifi on Acer aspire one new install LL3.4

[pingball57]

Hi, expanding on my intro post. I recent bought an Acer aspire one KAV60, formerly from a school, with Win 7 installed. Wifi worked. I installed Linuxlite 3.4 (32bit) from live USB, getting rid of Win7. NOw I have no wifi, clicking on icon I only get enable networking (tickbox), VPN connections & edit connections. The wifi indicator light on the front panel is off and the switch on the front edge of the machine has no effect. To repeat wifi worked fine with win7. I've not had do stuff like this before so haven't a clue what to do next except ask here. Anyone ?

[torreydale]

Consider going to Install Drivers (Menu -> Settings -> Install Drivers).


Also consider copying and pasting this into a terminal and posting the results to the forum.

Code:

inxi -F

[pingball57]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. Are your intsructions about copyimg & pasting a jest? The acer has no wifi = no internet conection. I'm on my HP.
I've run the code anyway. I'm assumng you wanted the network info which is:

card-1: Broardcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY  Driver: b43-pci-bridge
IF: n/a  state: n/a  mac: n/a
card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet  Driver: ath1c
IF: enp3s0  State: down  mac: 70:5a:b6:04:0e:07

Also the M/c details are: Acer Aspire one. Mod.no. KAV60 (V: V1.29)

I tried to get this post in the right place said I'd be doing so in my intro post but peopleseem to have missed that bit, so I've got replies there as well. Computers & I don't seem to mix well...

[bitsnpcs]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. Are your instructions about copying & pasting a jest? The acer has no Wifi = no Internet connection.

I tried to get this post in the right place said I'd be doing so in my intro post but people seem to have missed that bit, so I've got replies there as well. Computers & I don't seem to mix well...

I do not believe [member=5239]torreydale[/member] is making fun by suggesting to copy and paste the terminal command, but he will answer for himself, timezones vary/or he may be busy.
Some newbies are a bit scared of typing in the terminal to begin with, or do appreciate the option to copy/paste, I copy/pasted often to begin with, until I became more familiar with its "movements", it can reel off a lot of text which can be daunting in an OS not familiar with at the time etc.

In your intro post you can click "modify" to edit, and change the details to something less likely to encourage replies, such as not specifying the machine or issue, stating you have a issue and have posted this in the right section.

Do you have an ethernet cable to connect the Acer Aspire to the router as you will need to d/l to fix ?

Fix instructions are here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDo...er/bcm43xx

[Valtam]

Connect to your modem with an ethernet cable, then open a terminal on the Acer and do:

Code:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

then reboot.
There will be additional Broadcom support in the 3.6 release.

[torreydale]

no modem = no internet

Wi-Fi tech was more than likely invented after we had wired/physical connections.

I have Broadcom as well.  And I use a wired connection when installing until I can get to the Install Drivers utility after the first reboot.  Then I can use the Broadcom wireless adapter for Wi-Fi.

[Ottawagrant]

Torreydale: You're post should get mentioned a lot. That is something I ALWAYS do. When installing a Linux OS I always used a wired ethernet connection, even if the computer has wi-fi. Many a time I've booted a live disk, have internet via LAN, but the little wi-fi light isn't on. At least with an internet connection you can troubleshoot. I've been noticing that many new computers no longer have ethernet ports, or VGA ports. Most new laptops are HDMI only.

[BarryVG]

Greetings,

For the number of Linux OSs I've played with, I have discovered the Netgear adapters have been found on all installs.  All other types I do what Jerry said.  My favorite Netgear adapter is the WNA1000M series.  Give N range and allows me to work the setup of any other adapters.  As I do not have ethernet capability at my home, I've found a work-around

BarryVG

[trinidad]

Okay. This is getting really disjointed. Identifying your hardware before installing is the easiest way. The broadcom binary blobs are the same for Deb. Download the Deb package and save it as a Deb package to a separate USB in advance. The LL installer will often find it if you are installing from DVD or if you have two USB ports. If it doesn't you can still find it from LL afterwards on the USB. Pre-seeding Deb packages of firmware blobs is something we should add to the help manual, and an instruction on how to identify hardware on running Windows systems prior to Linux installs. I believe the bcm wifi support for this particular card has been in LL for a while, since late 2.8 or 3.0 in my experience. I'm betting that it was available to this questioner during installation and he/she simply opted not to connect, and the system info posted seems to be currently configured to attempt a wired connection. Also many many Netgear adapters are not compatible except through ndiswrapper. This particular questioner should also check the BIOS to make sure wifi is enabled and which key will enable it as this could also be a keyboard recognition issue. Also broadcom support in RHEL is very extensive. If there is no Deb available there is often RPM for OEM installations, and contrary to popular opinion they (being binary blobs) are installable via the terminal in Deb without alien and come with installation instructions.

TC

[pingball57]

Hi everyone. To cut to the chase, I tried Jerry's fix - no go, so as I was now connected to the web with ethernet I did a fresh install - installed updates - Jerry's code & on final reboot I had a little green light on the Wifi. My router was recognised & accepted it's password. So fixed.  . Thanks everyone for your input.