Hello, ** mercator [2012-02-22 23:35:26 +0800]: > Hi guys, > After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to > show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below is > my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : > 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Sorry, if you find my answer a rude but did you use search engines? See wiki.archlinux.org? E.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless IMHO, proper command must be $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 > My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off > etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of > wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi > on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), Ah, broadcom and HP (6515b), something familiar. I remember a problem with HP notebook with broadcom wireless card about a year or two ago. The problem was solved by downloading kernel module source compiling then and installing (not Archlinux, Kubuntu). This Google returns me for "broadcom linux bcm4311" http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' > out put as follows : > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: yes > After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: yes > And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to > power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has > diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my > harddisk supporting windows install). --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- FORTRAN rots the brain. -- John McQuillin
