Linux mint wireless lan
After installing Linux Mint 12 on my Compaq Presario CQ40-410AU (x64 bit) laptop, the wireless LAN Broadcom BCM4312 802.11/bg doesn’t work out of the box.
Solution:
I found this site, linuxwireless.org, very helpful in solving this problem.
b43 and b43legacy are drivers for the 802.11 B/G/N family of wireless chips that Broadcom produces. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of the 802.11 core. If your card is a BCM4306 Rev 2 or only has 802.11b capability, it uses b43legacy. All other models use b43. This number is read by the driver ssb, and the correct choice for your device is made at that point. The drivers are called bcm43xx in mainline kernels, and b43 and b43legacy in wireless-2.6 and 2.6.24 and later.
Driver Installation:
1. Open the Terminal window (this is similar to M$ Windows command prompt)
Note: You can access the Terminal application from Menu —> Accessories —> Terminal. Optionally, you can use the shortcut by pressing ALT+F2, type gnome-terminal then press the enter key to launch it.
2. Execute the following command from Terminal window to find out whether your PCI device is supported by the b43 and b43legacy drivers.
Terminal Command:
Result Sample: My Device
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [ 14e4:4315 ] (rev 01)
3. Check the result and compare the PCI-ID (highlighted above) of your WLAN device with the driver support table posted on linuxwireless.org.
4. Once you have confirmed that your WLAN device is supported, you may proceed to installing the driver by running the following command from Terminal window.
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer Additional Note:
In my case, this command raised the following error.
«An unsupported BCM4312 Low-Power (LP-PHY) device was found.»
I was able to fix this by installing the appropriate LP-PHY driver.
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
Linux mint wireless lan
Mediatek launched a working driver for their wireless device MT7630E for Linux Mint/Ubuntu which was officially supported only for kernel 3.13 and 3.14. The modified driver I am going to use can be installed upto kernel 4.4.*
Download the driver from here (It’s a modification of the original driver for easy installation)
Now follow the instructions below:
1. extract the archive in your Downloads directory (or any other directory).
2 . In terminal run:
cd ~/Downloads/MT7630E-release (change the path if you extracted in another folder)
3. now run these commands one by one:
sudo chmod +x install
sudo ./install
It will prompt for your password. Put your password and wait to finish the installaion.
After installation has been completed the wifi will appear in the networkmanager and bluetooth will be available for use. The driver will load at startup automatically, so you don’t need to load the driver every time you reboot.
Comments
Thank you ! (Asus S551L + LinuxMint Tara)
If wifi works after installing the driver but bluetooth doesn’t, you should check «Readme.md» in driver file directory (/Downloads/MT7630E-release).
There is a instruction how to run a script that turn bluetooth on.
It is good activate kernel repository in software source, script download and patch kernel for you.
Works for me on Asus X550V.
Sorry for my bad english, it is not my native lanquage.
It works fine for me thanks..
Kernel 4.6.0
Mint 18
@FLLM that’s odd. Try the dkms install. commands
@jefreesujit
something is wrong with your environment (not the driver) i.e it failed even before starting to compile the driver. Better post this at Ubuntu Forums
Wifi is not working for MT7630E in ubuntu 15.10. I followed the instructions, but it doesnt work.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=/home/jefree/Documents/new wifi/MT7630E-release/rt2x00 modules
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-23-generic’
arch/x86/Makefile:138: CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support
Makefile:669: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler
make[1]: *** No rule to make target ‘wifi/MT7630E-release/rt2x00’. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-23-generic’
Makefile:8: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
cp -v firmware/*/* /lib/firmware/
‘firmware/BT/mt76x0.bin’ -> ‘/lib/firmware/mt76x0.bin’
‘firmware/Wi-FI/MT7650E234.bin’ -> ‘/lib/firmware/MT7650E234.bin’
cp rt2x00/mt7630e.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
cp: cannot stat ‘rt2x00/mt7630e.ko’: No such file or directory
Makefile:16: recipe for target ‘install’ failed
make: *** [install] Error 1
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘mt7630e’: Invalid argument
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘mt76xx’: Invalid argument
@crack25
wifi works on the new kernels with this driver, but the bluetooth problem still persists. We haven’t found any cause-and-solution for that yet.
Wifi is working with LM17.2 (kernel 4.2.0-18) ASUS TP500LN. Bluetooth does not work.
I just used this for Linux Mint 17.2 on a newly purchased ASUS X555LB-NS51 laptop and it worked for me. Thank you! Quick note: the ./install command also needed sudo.
The driver has been updated and the kernel support has been extended. This driver seems to be installable even in kernel 4.0
That’s upto mediatek, if they start supporting ubuntu 14.10 then you will be able to do what you want.
It will only work with kernel version 13 and 14. So it will not work on Ubuntu 14.10 which has kernel 3.16
@ freezx,
yeah, many laptops, specially asus laptops are facing that problem. It’s because of the main driver is not that resource efficient. You have to wait until mediatek releases an efficient version of the driver.
Bug report for this problem and related discussions
great , very useful!
Thanks!
Настраиваем WiFi в Linux Mint
Структура Linux Mint сделана таким образом, чтобы свести на нет все трудности, которые могут возникнуть с настройками системы и, в частности, с настройкой WiFi. Все необходимые драйвера скорее всего будут загружены при установке системы, так что вам остается сделать только несколько движений для окончательной настройки беспроводной сети.
В правом нижнем углу панели инструментов располагается значок сетевого подключения. Переместите на него курсор мыши и кликните. Откроется окно со списком всех доступных в настоящее время сетей.
Вы видите все доступные сети, среди которых есть и ваша. Кликните по названию своей сети. Появится запрос на ввод пароля. Введите свой пароль и кликните ОК . Настройка сети закончена.
Бывают случаи, когда ваша сеть не видна. Чем это может быть вызвано? Ну, банально, отсутствием в настоящее время сетевого трафика. У поставщика услуг могут быть какие-либо технические неполадки. Также, нужно проверить сам роутер, его настройки и корректную установку драйверов. В последнем случае можно прибегнуть к помощи терминала. Для этой цели открываем терминал, вводим команду sudo -i . Затем нажимаем Enter , и вводим свой пароль. После чего можно ввести одну из двух команд: sudo iwconfig , или sudo lspci . Окно терминала выдаст следующее:
В данном случае все опознано и работает как часы. В случае некорректной установки драйверов, нужно обратиться на сайт производителя оборудования, или погуглить в сети, чтобы найти свой драйвер. Но обычно такого не происходит.
Вы также можете настроить скрытую сеть WiFi. Для этого переместите снова указатель мыши на значок сетевого подключения, и кликните на него. Откроется знакомое вам окно, в котором нужно выбрать Параметры сети .