Monday, September 19, 2016

wireless - Unable to establish wifi internet connection on new ubuntu installation

Computer: HP Stream Notebook 11.6" Intel Celeron CPU N2840. WiFi was working in Windows, replaced Windows with Ubuntu 16.04. I have no Ethernet connection, so have not been able to connect to the internet at all. What I've tried: gone to Software & Updates/Available Drivers, 802 is selected. I suspect the problem may lie in the Add/Edit Wifi connections box, in the Device field. If that is for my computer's NIC MAC address, I have been unable to find it with lshw or grep commands because the portion of the resulting display which would contain my MAC is in the eth0 section, and I have no Ethernet connection. Suggestions and redirection welcome.



lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list:
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: ssb, wl


$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

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