I can do as you suggested and a hcitool dev then shows my BT adapter’s MAC. It seems to work but it does not find any other devices. Well there is nothing Acer can do about this issue really. Bluetooth is being detected but Broadcom hasn’t provided proper drivers for it to function properly.
- Your Linux operating system failing to detect wireless connections is a common problem that many users come across after reinstalling their operating system.
- This will display the current WiFi drivers loaded on your system.
- I’m running various Linux distros, including a couple of Mints, on both a Dell mini-10 netbook and on Virtualboxes on my IMac.
- A new attack called BlueBug was used for this experiment.
Thanks for the info on this extended coverage. I have an older dv600 that HP said the mother board had to be replaced and it download broadcom Drivers was out of warrenty. I do need to back up all my data as they end up wiping and restoring it back to its default after the new mobo install.
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Something went wrong while trying to load the full version of this site. Try hard-refreshing this page to fix the error. It took two tries , with fully uninstalling everything and trying it again. I have a Compaq Presario V500 amd64, bcm4318. It was a MAC addres filter on my router, everything seems to work just fine now. I was having problems logging into gnome, so i had to login to gnome safemode and i turned off all the desktop modifications i set earlier, and then i could log back into gnome.
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The built-in driver supports the essential functions of Broadcom hardware. In some cases, after upgrading to Windows 10, the Ethernet controller on your motherboard is not compatible with Windows 10 and can’t access the Internet. The easiest way is to choose a wireless network connection or use a USB WIFI Adapter instead.
Do you think that I should start over using the original posters instructions. As I mentioned earlier I could not get them to work so I just used the HowToSetupNdiswrapper instructions. It worked perfect on my Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop. Had to “sudo modprobe ndiswrapper” after login, for wlan0 to show up as a selectable option in Gnome (i.e. under the network settings), but afterwards it was all OK.
This means manufacturers need to create their own ways to make communication possible with the operating system. Hi, I’ve tried upgrading to Windows 10 Home from Windows 7 Home Jmicron memorycard fail, all connected to the PCI bus. Looks like an old problem with the intel chipset driver reappearing. (In windows 7 and there is no Broadcom driver available for Windows 10. They might have a usergroups with but it refuses to install. I had to but once Win10 is running I have no possibility to access the internet.