Problem with Wifi

[DuMar]

machine Acer aspire 5349

I used this laptop with Xenial 32 frugal on usb and it works flawless every day.

Now I tried to switch to Fossapup 64 with Lick (windows 7) and I experience problems with the wifi card, no network found. I can almost never make a connection with the internet. n

I would be pleased if someone can tell me what I must do and show you to help me make this work. The wifi card is not broke and works without problems with windows 7 and Xenial32.

[ThruHammer]

DuMar mate, which driver's listed running under Xenial? Use PupScan.

If an onboard card and while running Fossa, run:

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lspci -nn | grep Network

If USB, run:

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lsusb

[bigpup]

Did you install all the parts of Fossapup64 9.5?

This differs from usual pups by being more modular, sort of a two pups in one. Rather than just the main puppy.sfs and zdrv.sfs (kernel) there's also the puppys fdrv & adrv utility. So say for instance you just want a bare bones system, you can remove the adrv and get a small 180mb puppy. it can go even smaller if you use tahrpups firmware in the fdrv to something nearing 150mb. You could even compile a new smaller kernel for the zdrv and go even smaller.
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what the different drvs.sfs give you: .....

puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 97mb
a basic system that boots to desktop. no dri drivers, no apps apart from dillo, urxvt & leafpad

adrv_fossapup_9.5.sfs 229mb
this will give you a regular puppy, abiword, mtpaint palemoon etc

fdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 40mb
this is the firmware separated from the kernel and is easy to edit and change

zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 27mb
this is the kernel and can easily be changed with change_kernels

note that the puppy.sfs requires a zdrv.sfs & fdrv.sfs, the adrv requires the puppy.sfs,zdrv.sfs & fdrv.sfs.

[bigpup]

By info in the computers manual.
The key combo FN + F3 will enable/disable WIFI.

There is a chance this is disabled at boot up and Fossapup is not auto enabling it.

See if it is turned on

To determine if it is Hard Blocked. In a terminal (console):

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 rfkill list all

wlan0 is usually the wifi

If it indicates it is hard blocked.
There is a switch on the laptop that turns it off/on.
Press that swich and rerun

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 rfkill list all

to see if it worked to stop the hard block.

[ThruHammer]

DuMar,

Skip my post for the time being.

Did you install all FOUR components of the Fossa ISO?

If YES, then check that hardware key-combo bigpup mentioned. It could well be the issue.

[DuMar]

First, ThruHammer and bigpup, thank you for trying to help me.

There is no hard block

root# rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: wlan
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: wlan
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I use this:

puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 97mb
a basic system that boots to desktop. no dri drivers, no apps apart from dillo, urxvt & leafpad

adrv_fossapup_9.5.sfs 229mb
this will give you a regular puppy, abiword, mtpaint palemoon etc

fdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 40mb
this is the firmware separated from the kernel and is easy to edit and change

zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs 27mb
this is the kernel and can easily be changed with change_kernels

ThruHammer your suggestion gives this.

root# lspci -nn | grep Network
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

[rerwin]

Now I tried to switch to Fossapup 64 with Lick (windows 7) and I experience problems with the wifi card, no network found. I can almost never make a connection with the internet.

So, you have made a connection at least one time in FossaPup. Right?

What network manager are you using to establish a wifi connection? Maybe it is not waiting long enough for the hardware to respond to being started.

Also, do you see any indication of a firmware problem in dmesg or /var/log/messages?

Richard

[ozsouth]

@DuMar this could be a missing driver, missing firmware or both.
Simplest is to check firmware, by running in a terminal: dmesg | grep irmware
If any is missing, please post output here.

If it is a missing driver (many broadcom adaptors need the wl driver), a wl driver for Fossapup64-9.5,
with instructions, is here: viewtopic.php?p=20870#p20870