I am trying to install a Linux distro on this old laptop, which sports a 1.70GHz processor but also has a touchscreen.
So far, no distro has been able to connect with the wireless adapter (the device doesn’t appear when I try ip addr
or similar).
Where can I find Linux compatible wireless adapter firmware for this model? The Dell site only reports a host of options for Windows executables.
pobrn
2 September 2020 23:01
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What’s the output of lspci | egrep -i '(network|wireless)'
?
Please wait, I’ll run that command asap.
Meanwhile, it seems that this is a fairly rampant issue with this laptop model on any distro:
https
://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?48525-Can-t-install-kali-linux-on-a-Dell-Inspiron-11-3148-wifi-card-not-detected
https ://www.dell.com/community/Networking-Internet-Bluetooth/Wifi-problem-in-Dell-inspiron-3148/td-p/4708395
https ://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Wifi-not-working-on-for-Ubuntu-or-any-linux-flavor-on-Dell/td-p/4571053
https
://askubuntu.com/questions/626642/how-to-install-broadcom-wireless-drivers-offline (also provides a solution for Ubuntu)
https
://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=210264
It’s also plagued generally by issues with its driver.
Some sites tell that I have to find the “broadcom” driver under Additional Drivers.
Let’s try all of the above. Obviously the terminal command is the first step.
I got Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01).
There is a thread on Arch forum labeled solved - it is quite old but so is your system
Edit: Everything finally works now!! I installed ://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/ and carefully followed the instructions over at ://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Installing_packages)
What I learned from this: rtfm for sure. Thank you all, for trying your best to help me out. Especially to twelveeighty for making this!
– ://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1308505#p1308505
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/
This link doesn’t work.
what about this driver?
Broadcom bluetooth firmware for BCM43142A0 based devices.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bcm43142a0-firmware/
or
Firmware for Broadcom B43 wireless networking chips - latest release
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware/
Firmware for Broadcom B43 wireless networking chips - trusted release
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware-classic/
I had come across these links.
Unfortunately, this wiki seems to be discouraging about driver support for B43142: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43
I also didn’t find bcm43142
on AUR through Octopi (I’m currently testing out KaOS).
I did install broadcom-wl
from Octopi - didn’t find its *-dkms
version if these aren’t the same thing.
broadcom-wl
got installed automatically once the Manjaro Hello setup was done.
system
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8 September 2020 19:22
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