Thursday, October 4, 2018

11.10 - Wireless connection doesn't work on a BCM4311


Possible Duplicate:
Broadcom BCM4311 Wireless not working







I upgrade to 11.10 and I can no longer connect. I'm very much a newbie when it comes to linux, so any explanation would be much appreciated.



After upgrading to 11.10, the startup screen started saying "waiting for network configuration" and after a minute or so it would then say "booting without network configuration".



I have a dell vostro 1000 (not sure the year)



After typing



sudo rfkill list 



I get



0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes


any suggestions?




and



 sudo rfkill unblock all


doesn't change anything.



The Network controller is BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
and the Ethernet controller is a BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX




I now believe that the problem with my wired connection is a faulty Ethernet cable or physical hardware that connects to the Ethernet cable as I got the wired connection to work but is sensitive to being physically touched, I which case I would still like to get the wireless working

No comments:

Post a Comment

11.10 - Can't boot from USB after installing Ubuntu

I bought a Samsung series 5 notebook and a very strange thing happened: I installed Ubuntu 11.10 from a usb pen drive but when I restarted (...