Interesting… it should take a moment, not a while.
Re: the results of your blacklist query above: My (functioning) wireless laptop produces the identical blacklist results, word for word.
I’m still struck by this entry you’ve shared:
Device-2 (presumably your wireless device) shows “driver: N/A” - which suggest to me (a newbie for sure) that you’ve not yet gotten a wireless driver properly installed.
As @SomeGuy said his blacklist looks the same. So the following should not make a point if its the same error. But if the driver install and reboot not bring your wifi up take a look at this:
As you see there is BCM43** blacklisted. So I would suggest to delete this.
To find the file you have to go you can typ this (perhaps its called mhwd-network.conf):
grep -l bcm43xx /etc/modprobe.d/*
Then open it with nano (or an other editor) and delete these line.
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/*yourfile*
After deleting these line you can save the file in nano with crtl+o and exit with ctrl+x. After a reboot the driver should be loaded automatically.
Just to clarify… while I confirm that I see the identical list of eight (8) blacklist’ed entries, my wifi is in fact functioning and I’m not getting any errors (actually, my download speeds on this laptop are running around 50Mbps at the moment).
It’s clearly worth a try to follow @kisun’s guidance as he’s far more Linux-savvy than me, but since those same blacklist entries aren’t stopping my BCM4331 wireless adapter from functioning, I’d be surprised if they were stopping your BCM43142 from functioning. Still worth a try.
Are you seeing any change based on inxi results with respect to your Device-2 (wireless broadcom device) showing a driver (instead of N/A) since you’ve followed steps thus far?
Ah, I thought it was just the wifi driver you were downloading … not an entire system upgrade.
Yes, if you’re running kernel 5.10 you’ve likely got a lot of upgrading to do. Latest I’ve got on a rolling basis is now 5.19 … perhaps this might also provide you with a current platform on which to get your wifi driver working. Keep us posted.
If you’ve got an ethernet hard wire connection up and running, then you can probably just click on the Network icon on the bottom of your screen, and from there accomplish establishing a wi-fi connection most directly.
— otherwise ----
Go to “System Settings” in your main menu (typically under “Settings” not “System”)
Then under “Network” category, select “Connections” …
Then under “Wi-Fi” you’ll need to find the available connections, selecting your home wifi router/password…
To see available connections, on my KDE Plasma desktop environment, there’s a “+” sign at the bottom of the Connections panel. Click on the “+” then select “Wi-fi” and the “Create” button.
You’ll see a screen with the top choice being “SSID” - click on the pull down arrow and you should then see a list of all the available wi-fi connections (your home wi-fi included).
But just seeing a list of available wifi connections would indicate that your wifi adapter has been identified, has a driver, and is functioning.
Sounds like meaningful progress. You are on the right track … but I’m not seeing the little drop-down triangle at the right edge of the SSID input space. This suggests your wi-fi adapter is not up and running just yet.
Have you rebooted again since upgrading and trying once again to install the updated driver?
warning: linux519-rt-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
after the kernel update i did install the re-broadcom-wl for the linux 5.19, so i dont think that would solve anything
however in the ip a command
the state of the device is DORMANT, i think if we can manage to get it to UP the problem should be solved.
whats ur opinion?
That sounds like the solution, indeed. Dormant would seem to indicate that the device is now recognized and has a matching driver. Let’s explore how to wake it up…
3: wlp9s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether c6:8a:4e:42:a4:a9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr e0:06:e6:d2:86:b9
i did set the state up with the command sudo ip link set wlp9s0 state UP, but there is no drop down on the SIDD, but keep in mind that when i rebooted the laptop (after setting the state to up) the state went back to DORMANT.