How to use HP G61 Notebook WiFi in Fatdog64?

[RichardFiddler]

Hi ... great to see you all thriving!

Love FD64 - use it on 3 machines ... but this laptop does not like the WiFi / Network drivers available to it.

Tried the additional firmware sfs in 710 ... no change.

Under windows both wifi and lan work so the hardware itself is probably fine.

lspci -nn | grep etwork
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 etc...

lspci -nn | grep net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

uname -a Linux Fatdog64-9e6 4.14.12 etc...

Tried a brief search but I cant see how to get this to pop up!

What to do ... what to do ...?

[user1111]

In the Fatdog help it suggests ...

If your Broadcom wireless card does not work with the driver included with the Linux kernel, Fatdog64 includes the proprietary Broadcom ‘wl’ driver.
To enable this open the Control Panel and click on the System tab.
Then click on Manage Servers and Services, and then BC-wl.
Click Start to start using this driver now and Enable to use this driver at every boot.
After that you will want to right-click on the Wpa-gui icon in the tray and select Restart Connection.

[RichardFiddler]

Thanks Ruff! Will try that now.

Later:

OK - starting the BC service helped...

wlan1 is now visible within wpa_gui ... but ... pressing "scan" sees no networks.
Also... status = "Disconnected".

ifconfig ... shows hw address but no IP.

There is a little orange button/light on the laptop that turns blue in windows when pressed and enables wifi.

The light is orange here and pressing it makes no difference eg. the wifi adaptor does not turn on and light remains orange instead of blue.

[user1111]

You did (save and) reboot?
Your ethernet is disconnected when you try wifi?

[RichardFiddler]

Yes did save and reboot ... result as above.

Have plugged in a usb wifi dongle and that works so am able to use the machine but would like the ethernet and wifi working.

[step]

The orange/blue switch: try Wireless Antenna Manager in the control panel network tab. I don't remember if it was already available in 710 but definitely is in 810, and your post title says "710/810" so I'm assuming you're interested in a solution for 810 too.
Also, check for missing firmware. Open a terminal window and run dmesg. Look for any error message related to your wifi card's firmware.

[user1111]

For firmware seen some references to using ...
https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/c ... -installer

Perhaps downloading that .deb, right click and select convert to package format, and then install that. For mine, when I try to install it, it just shows a no cards detected i.e. I don't have broadcom.

Backup before doing any of that so that you can roll back again.

[RichardFiddler]

Thanks for the input, guys.

Will try with a clean setup and post back in a bit.