Very new to Linux and need wireless help

[Whatne1wuddo]

Hey guys, iv decided to give Linux a shot on ny neybook, mostly for fun. I have it running off a persistent USB stick. However, I cannot get wifi to work. I've reas all the info here, downloaded the drivers from broadcoms site, but now I just do not know what to do. I don't know where to start in terminal, or where to put the files (currently they're sitting on a flash drive mocking me). Can someone walk me through terminal and everything step by step? Seriously, I've barely ever used command line, and don't even know what directory o should be in or whatever.

Thanks in advance

[sam24502]

Hi, there are a few things I'd like to bring to attention. First what distro are you using? (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Opensuse etc) Also, you can do it through the Hardware Drivers application (distro pending) by selecting Activate. *Note: Proprietary drivers (STA) worked without a hitch for me. As for doing it all in terminal, you should be able to Google the right way to install the drivers for I don't remember all the commands for that.

[pseudo]

Also, are you sure you've got the Broadcom WiFi module? I thought some of the newer models used an Intel WiFi card...

Check by bringing up a terminal (should be somewhere like menu > accessories > terminal) and running the following command:

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lspci | grep Network

lspci is a program that lists hardware addresses and other info, grep is basically a filter program, so the command reads - list hardware info for lines that contain "Network"

Always know what you're running, never copy and paste blind

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