How can i find a driver for my Wi-Fi device?

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 6:59pm

I tried:

nmcli device wifi connect SSID password YOUR_PASSWORD

And the error says “Errore: nessun dispositivo Wi-Fi trovato.” and it means that nmcli couldn’t find any device.
Edit: my wifi device info:

Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s

andreas85 · March 18, 2023, 7:02pm

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Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 7:05pm

there is also nmtui - a terminal based graphical UI
may be easier to use/navigate

but yes, as @andreas85 said - system info is needed

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 7:07pm

Thank you, just edited the post

Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 7:12pm

prepend your command with:
LANG=C
the output will be in english then

It looks like that there is no valid driver for your wifi card present

inxi -Fazy

is a command that I remember that will get you (and us) that info
along with a lot more …

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 7:15pm

Thank you, in “Activate a connection” i see only Ethernet: USB and PCI, what I should do?

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 7:18pm

Output of inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
    root=UUID=583ac903-6214-4258-8809-00ef4e8d9b56 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Notebook
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 80C2 v: 96.02 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: F.02 date: 03/24/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 22.6/41.4 Wh (54.6%)
    volts: 16.7 min: 14.8 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M350 Wireless Mouse
    serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
    gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1112 high: 2353 min/max: 500/3000 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 798 2: 500 3: 800 4: 2353
    bogomips: 19161
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 M430 Radeon
    520 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel
    alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands process: TSMC 28nm
    built: 2011-20 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 4 link-max: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6660 class-ID: 0380
    temp: 43.0 C
  Device-3: Chicony HP Truevision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:4
    chip-ID: 04f2:b509 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris,radeonsi gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x4e51 built: 2014 res: 1366x768 hz: 60
    dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.19-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
  IF-ID-1: enp0s20u2 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) type: USB
    driver: rndis_host v: kernel bus-ID: 1-2:12 chip-ID: 04e8:6863 class-ID: 0a00
    serial: <filter>
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 9.17 GiB (1.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 244.14 GiB size: 239.25 GiB (98.00%) used: 9.15 GiB (3.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
    used: 25.3 MiB (26.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C pch: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon
    temp: 43.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 183 Uptime: 1h 22m wakeups: 7 Memory: 15.54 GiB
  used: 2.09 GiB (13.5%) Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
  pkgs: 1042 libs: 315 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.25

Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 7:18pm

show us what you see - show us the output of a command that provides system info

don’t tell us what you see - show us

edit:
I see - you just added that info above

no wifi device present - however
a possible candidate (with no driver) is there

no idea at the moment how to make it work …

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 7:28pm

Thank you, I’m new on this forum, should I mark this as solution and make another topic asking for driver of my wifi device or not?

Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 7:32pm

it’s not a solution - it’s the start of how to find a driver for that device

you could now, with that information, try on your own …

But maybe it would be better to start a new thread, with all that info from the start,
and ask how to make that device work - if it can be made to work.

or adjust the title of the thread and continue here - I don’t know what might be better

Yochanan · March 18, 2023, 7:39pm

Please do not create duplicate topics for the same issue. You marked this post as solved. If it’s not, unmark it and follow up.

Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 7:41pm

not the way to go, it seems
new thread was closed
and I said it was not a solution

stay here - perhaps adjust the title …

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 8:06pm

Just solved!
FIrst I opened settings, then Manjaro Settings Manager, then Hardware configuration, I installed the driver, rebooted and then with nmtui i connected Manjaro to wifi.

Nachlese · March 18, 2023, 8:28pm

ok - so there was a driver to use and install
which was not installed by default - obviously

Could you tell us what it was?
so “we” can learn from it

inxi -Fazy
again -
with the now functioning driver
would help see what was done, what was missing for you

Thanks!

usualalteration · March 18, 2023, 8:44pm

ystem:
  Kernel: 6.1.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
    root=UUID=583ac903-6214-4258-8809-00ef4e8d9b56 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Notebook
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 80C2 v: 96.02 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: F.02 date: 03/24/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 22.6/41.4 Wh (54.6%)
    volts: 16.7 min: 14.8 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M350 Wireless Mouse
    serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
    gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1274 high: 3000 min/max: 500/3000 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 798 2: 798 3: 3000 4: 500
    bogomips: 19167
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 M430 Radeon
    520 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel
    alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands process: TSMC 28nm
    built: 2011-20 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 4 link-max: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6660 class-ID: 0380
    temp: 44.0 C
  Device-3: Chicony HP Truevision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:5
    chip-ID: 04f2:b509 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris,radeonsi
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x4e51 built: 2014 res: 1366x768 hz: 60
    dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9ca0 class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.19-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl
    v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0
    chip-ID: 14e4:4365 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 10.38 GiB (1.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 244.14 GiB size: 239.25 GiB (98.00%) used: 10.36 GiB (4.3%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
    used: 25.3 MiB (26.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C pch: 45.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon
    temp: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 187 Uptime: 42m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 1.9 GiB (12.2%)
  Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1082 libs: 341
  tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.25

system · March 21, 2023, 10:44am

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