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UNCLAIMED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] - no driver installed for wireless card on HP mini 210-1018CL in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Asked by Lily

I recently bought a HP mini 210-1018CL and have had a very difficult time getting everything to work with ubuntu 10.04. I can not get online when running Ubuntu. My internet works fine in the HP Tools splashtop and Windows 7 starter.

When I go into system- Administration - Hardware Drivers I see my Broadcom STA wireless driver when I click "activate" i get this error "failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04_Lucid Lynx_-Release i386 (20100429.4)/pool/main/p/patch/patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_i386.deb File not found"

My next attempt was to go to system administration- synaptic package manager- system administration (restricted)- i clicked to install the bcmwl-kemel source (package) [broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver is the description] I get "please insert the disk labeled:Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04_Lucid Lynx_-Release i386 (20100429.4) in drive/cdrom/" My netbook does not have a CD/DVD drive.
So I retried it after placing my thumb drive with the Ubuntu download on it. same thing happened. I also tried to run ubuntu off the thumbdrive and it kept freezing before even opening ubuntu.

I am not sure if this helps but this is what shows up in the terminal when with the command lspci (saw on other posts kind of similar to mine that this information was requested- but i after trying everything suggested mine still didn't work- suggestions included reinstalling the driver in windows, and starting ubuntu up with the thumb drive)

"00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4357 (rev 01)"

Thanks for your help in advance!

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

Tip: If you have a wheel mouse or 3 button mouse you do not need to type commands into the Terminal. Highlight the command written on the page. Move your cursor anywhere in the Terminal and press the wheel or middle button. Automatic Copy and paste! No spelling mistakes! No Typos! No other errors!

sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread. The troubleshooters here need to see the full Terminal output from running the above command.

Regards,

Mark

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

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Lily (cl-lily-oh) said : 		#3

elizabeth@elizabeth-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429.4)/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429.4)/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
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  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg
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Err http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'
Reading package lists... Done

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "hwinfo"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "hwinfo"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: c8:0a:a9:36:7e:89
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:26 ioport:5000(size=256) memory:50010000-50010fff(prefetchable) memory:50000000-5000ffff(prefetchable) memory:50020000-5002ffff(prefetchable)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Broadcom Corporation
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:56000000-56003fff
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04fc:05da Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:f100 Suyin Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                                  system HP Mini 210-1000
/0 bus 3660
/0/0 memory 1MiB BIOS
/0/a memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/a/0 memory 1GiB SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/e processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
/0/e/f memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/e/10 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/e/0.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/e/0.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/100 bridge N10 Family DMI Bridge
/0/100/2 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/1c.1 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 network Broadcom Corporation
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge NM10 Family LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 160GB WDC WD1600BEVT-6
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 199MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 76GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 11GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 60GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 58GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 2578MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/1 scsi5 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 2GB Cruzer
/0/1/0.0.0/0 /dev/sdb disk 2GB
/0/1/0.0.0/0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 1907MiB Windows FAT volume
/1 power AN03028
Linux elizabeth-laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.197741] ACPI Error (dswload-0781): [_PRW] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.197775] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node c08ce7dc), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.197792] ACPI: Marking method \___ as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
[ 0.197955] ACPI Error (dswload-0781): [USBR] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.197986] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node c08ce7dc), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.198002] ACPI: Marking method \___ as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
[ 0.198121] ACPI Error (dswload-0781): [RHUB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.198155] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node c08ce7dc), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.198173] ACPI: Marking method \___ as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
[ 0.198292] ACPI Error (dswload-0781): [RHUB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.198322] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node c08ce7dc), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
[ 0.198338] ACPI: Marking method \___ as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
[ 0.205995] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_PSW] (Node f701a9c0), AE_NOT_EXIST
[ 0.222264] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.248474] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.257789] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
[ 0.293113] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device [0xffff0000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.341761] Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
[ 0.341826] Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
[ 0.341929] Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
[ 0.341986] Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
[ 0.343053] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
[ 0.343512] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.352685] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.372328] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
[ 0.424551] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.425376] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.426006] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.426656] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.427281] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.504178] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.504188] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.630682] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.734811] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.062516] eth0: RTL8102e at 0xf802a000, c8:0a:a9:36:7e:89, XID 04e00000 IRQ 26
[ 1.565450] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.SATA.PRT0._GTF: Return type mismatch - found Integer, expected Buffer (20090903/nspredef-1006)
[ 12.564803] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 13.190736] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP Webcam-50 (064e:f100)
[ 13.620111] r8169: eth0: link down
[ 13.620622] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 14.173287] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 14.173567] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 14.543403] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x37
[ 1483.865608] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 1991.084135] usb-storage: device found at 5
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
sudo: hwinfo: command not found
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
elizabeth@elizabeth-laptop:~$

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Lily (cl-lily-oh) said : 		#4

Also as a note I am unable to connect using a LAN/ethernet cord- my apartment complex offers wifi so that is all i have. I hope that doesnt effect things too much. and thanks again in advance! You all are (computer) lifesavers!

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Lily (cl-lily-oh) said : 		#5

I have been tinkering around and i fixed the problem. I continued to look at other forums and came across this one http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1477215 which sent me to http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/bcmwl-kernel-source/download i downloaded that and updated my computer and something worked, I restarted my computer, went into hardware drivers pressed activate and it worked as SUPER EASY!

Thanks for the support!