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Dell D620 Wi-Fi off - psikeyhackr - 09-22-2020
If I boot from DVD and run Linux Lite live the Wi-Fi light comes on and works.
I installed it to the hard drive because it worked.
But when I boot the installed version the Wi-Fi light does not turn on and
System Information does not detect the Wi-Fi card. Why doesn't the install
version configure itself like the DVD boot?
Re: Dell D620 Wi-Fi off - TheDead - 09-22-2020
Hi
First guess is that the Wi-Fi driver is on the live boot not installed on the HDD.
Open a terminal windows and type this:
lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
Report back!
Bonus : I bet it's a broadcom Wi-Fi Card
Re: Dell D620 Wi-Fi off - psikeyhackr - 09-23-2020
Thank You for responding so quickly.
HD boot results:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
DVD boot results:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
You win!
Re: Dell D620 Wi-Fi off - TheDead - 09-24-2020
There is a specific driver to install in terminal for the broadcom BCM43xx :
sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
If it does works, you could need some other steps. For that, see here :
https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers