Can't connect to WiFi on Lenovo Ideapad S10e [SOLVED]

[sp4nn3rs]

Hello :^)

I seem to be having trouble setting up the Wifi on my Lenovo Ideapad S10e, which is running friendly-jammypup32-rc2. Internet works fine with an ethernet cable, in fact I'm writing this post on this laptop right now :^)

Some specs:

CPU Type: Intel Atom N270, 1.60GHz
System Memory: 640 KB
Extended Memory: 2038 MB

Basically, while setting up the network, there is no wireless option available, the only visible option in the internet connection wizard is: eth0 Wired tg3 pci Broadcom Tigon 3 ethernet driver.

After googling for a little while I found some commands for the terminal in order to check what sort of Wifi card I have on this laptop, and this is what they returned:

dmesg | grep -i firmware
[ 3.221518] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 34.747611] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 35.331823] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/lp0initvals15.fw failed with error -2
[ 35.332214] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 35.332400] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 35.332416] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/lp0initvals15.fw" not found
[ 35.332422] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not found
[ 35.332430] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... cefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
# dmesg | grep -i wifi
# lspci -nn -d 14e4:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1713] (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

I tried to go to that website but the link was dead. I guess the correct site today is
https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/lat ... s/b43.html

I found that my network controller on this list is
"14e4:4315 yes BCM4312 b/g LP (r1) wl"

I couldn't find this driver on this webpage?
Some older version of the webpage was mentioned as:
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/e ... ivers/b43/

On that page there are instructions given as to how to download this driver, but Puppy Linux is not on the list I don't fully understand the other distributions section.

Could someone explain to me how to download this driver?

Thank you for your help

[Jasper]

JammyPup is Ubuntu based.

If ypu have Apt available the suggested command in terminal is

apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

then follow the prompts

[sp4nn3rs]

JammyPup is Ubuntu based.

If ypu have Apt available the suggested command in terminal is

apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

then follow the prompts

Unfortunately I do not seem to have Apt.
I get these errors:

# sudo apt update
sudo: apt: command not found
# sudo apt install apt
sudo: apt: command not found
# sudo apt-get --reinstall install apt
sudo: apt-get: command not found

So I tried downloading the driver with the Package manager and I believe I did, but it didn't seem to have worked, as "dmesg | grep -i firmware" brings up the same error -2 as in my first post.

I also got a warning in the package manager about version differences:

CropScreenshotPackageManagerError.png (42.65 KiB) Viewed 265 times

The installed package not visible on the right is "b43-121105-k3.2plus"

And here is the whole Package manager:

Screenshot(2).png (92.21 KiB) Viewed 265 times

What should I do? Should I try to install Apt?

Thank you for your help.

[rcrsn51]

Your best source of info about Broadcom wifi is here. The attached b43 firmware package is a DEB but you may be able to left-click install it into a Puppy. Then reboot to activate it.

[sp4nn3rs]

Your best source of info about Broadcom wifi is here. The attached b43 firmware package is a DEB but you may be able to left-click install it into a Puppy. Then reboot to activate it.

Woohoo! That did it!
Thank you so much! ¸