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[SOLVED] Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by gruer » Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:01 pm

I’ve just installed the Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela on my Acer Aspire One D250 netbook. The installation process was alright, but after the completion I could not activate the wireless network.
The same netbook was running Ubuntu before, with no wireless problems.

When I open the Drivers system option, the broadcom wi-fi driver is displayed as inactive, and the message «this device is not working» is shown. If I try to change the radiobutton to activate the hardware, it returns to inactive status right after the changes are applied.

Thank you in advance if you could guide me on how to install/activate the device.

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Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by Laurent85 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:47 pm

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by gruer » Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:42 pm

This is the result of the command:

System: Host: gruer-Aspire-one Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: Mobo: Acer model: Aspire one version: V1.25 Bios: Acer version: V1.25 date: 11/28/2009
CPU: Single core Intel Atom CPU N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3192.05
Clock Speeds: 1: 1066.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024×600@60.1hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac:
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet driver: atl1c ver: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (2.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1600BEVT size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 146G used: 4.1G (3%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.06GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected — /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 26.8C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 193 Uptime: 22 min Memory: 344.3/993.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17 [/size]

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by Laurent85 » Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:34 am

Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 01:00.0 IF: wlan0 state: down mac:

BCM4312 wirelesss device needs a firmware from Broadcom. Install package firmware-b43-installer through Sotware Manager. Reboot to complete.

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by gruer » Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:01 pm

Thank you Laurent! That worked fine, now my wireless is working ok.

Would you have a similar hint for the touchpad? I was using an external mouse so far but yesterday when I disconnected it realize that the built-in touchpad is not working as well.

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by Laurent85 » Sat Sep 12, 2015 2:54 pm

xinput dmesg | egrep -i 'i8042|mouse' awk -v RS= '/mouse/ ' /proc/bus/input/devices

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 broadcom wireless card

Post by gruer » Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:48 pm

gruer@gruer-Aspire-one ~ $ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Webcam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

gruer@gruer-Aspire-one ~ $ dmesg | egrep -i ‘i8042|mouse’
[ 2.836132] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSS0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 2.855964] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 2.855983] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 2.856584] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 2.878741] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4
[ 3.957221] usb 3-1: Product: USB Optical Mouse
[ 4.037948] input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/0003:0461:4D17.0001/input/input8
[ 4.039410] hid-generic 0003:0461:4D17.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
[ 4.448424] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5888], y [..5218]
[ 4.577184] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04773/0xa40000/0xa0000, board id: 0, fw id: 511380
[ 4.660409] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7

gruer@gruer-Aspire-one ~ $ awk -v RS= ‘/mouse/ ‘ /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0461 Product=4d17 Version=0111
N: Name=»USB Optical Mouse»
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/0003:0461:4D17.0001/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event6
B: PROP=0
B: EV=17
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name=»SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad»
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event7
B: PROP=9
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=2608000 11000003

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Ubuntu 11.10 on the ASUS Aspire One D250 (AOD250-1070)

My wife has been very happy with the Aspire One running XP as a way to take notes at meetings, but lately, it keeps forgetting about its wireless interface. So I installed Ubuntu on it as a diagnostic tool with WUBI, and forgot about it. Later, while scraping together eight machines for a Minecraft birthday party for my eight year old son, I tried running it on the Aspire under XP. Framerate was terrible, and someone said it was better under Linux. So I booted into the Ubuntu install, and actually tried using it. It worked, but.

Updating BIOS

The CPU is reported as an N270 instead of an N280, and is stuck at 800 MHz. This is a well known bug, and the supposed fix is to flash the BIOS to version 1.26 or later.

The BIOS can be downloaded from Acer at support.acer.com, but the bundled readme says you need either a DOS bootable USB stick or an «HP Windows 7 system», neither of which I have handy.

1. fdisk /dev/sdb
   1. print partition table and make sure it’s really the usb stick!
   2. delete existing partitions
   3. create a 16MB partition
   4. give it type 4 (i.e. FAT16 less than 32MB)
   5. write the changes and quit
   1. remove the laptop’s battery and power cord
   2. insert the USB stick
   3. hold down the FN and ESC keys
   4. plug in the power cord (power light should flash once briefly)
   5. release FN and ESC
   6. power up the laptop

   If the system doesn’t reboot and come back to life by itself within ten minutes, it probably couldn’t read the USB stick properly, try again (possibly with a different stick; I had to try two).

   With the new BIOS.

   . the CPU was finally reported as N280, yay, and /proc/cpuinfo reported the CPU speed as 1000MHz rather than 800. However, ‘cpufreq-set -g performance’ didn’t change the cpu frequency reported by /proc/cpuinfo, even though it changed the frequency reported by ‘cpufreq-info’.

   And the BIOS update didn’t get Minecraft above 1fps. Does the Atom really suck? Or is it something else?

   By comparison, an Inspiron B130, Ubuntu 12.04, 1GB RAM, 2MB cache, Pentium M 1.7GHz, Intel 915GM, cpufreq-set -g performance, with game set for «graphics:fast, render distance:short, performance:max fps» gets about 8fps.

   • smaller cache
   • broken CPU frequency control?
   • better integer pipeline
   • graphics hardware
   • graphics driver
   • different version of ubuntu
   • installed with WUBI rather than natively

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   Installing Ubuntu 9.10 on Acer AspireOne D250-1428 Netbook

   General Hardware Specifications of Acer AspireOne D250-1428:

   No special procedure required during installation.

   This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.31-20-generic

   • Why to use Ubuntu 9.10: At the time of this writing, 9.10 was most current.
   • Obtaining Ubuntu 9.10: www.ubuntu.com
   • Installation:
     • Must be completed using a USB CDROM, or a USB Drive with the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD installed (persistance is not necessary)
     • When booting the CD/USB Drive, you must set ACPI to NONE before booting. When the initial screen comes up (asking you to run without changes, or install), press F6 and select ACPI=NONE.
     • During the first reboot after install, you will need to pass the ACPI=NONE kernel option in order to boot into your newly installed OS. When GRUB loads, press the ‘e’ key to edit the first line. Use your arrow keys to move down to the KERNEL line, and go to the end of the line. Make sure there is a space after the last option, and type ACPI=NONE. Perss CTRL+X to boot.
     • Once booted, connect system to a hard-wired internet connection, and run your updates. This can either be done through Update Manger GUI, or by running: sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
     • Once updated, your system will have the latest kernel, and will no longer need the ACPI=NONE option.
     • Go into System ==> Administration ==> Hardware Drivers, and activate Broadcom STA Wireless driver in order to get wireless working.

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