Re: Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, mercator <mercator2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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)
>
>
> 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),

I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch
on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV.

Cheers,

Tom


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