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  [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? "Harilal, Ahlad (ACIS India)" <Ahlad.Harilal@allianzcornhill.co.in> - 2015-08-31 09:20 +0200
    Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org> - 2015-09-06 22:40 +0200
      Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-09-08 18:30 +0200
        Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-09-08 19:20 +0200
        Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-09-08 19:30 +0200
          Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-09-08 19:40 +0200
            Re: [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi? Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-09-08 23:50 +0200

#157182 — [Newsletter] Why does Debian not recognize my WiFi?

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Hi,

I tried all possible ways to fix wireless driver issues for my Dell Vostro laptop. Chip manufactures Broadcom has provided a debian installation file from their official website for the proper chipset. I tried it  but no luck

Regards,
Ahlad Harilal


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#157481

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On 31/08/15 17:04, Harilal, Ahlad (ACIS India) wrote:
> I tried all possible ways to fix wireless driver issues for my
> Dell Vostro laptop. Chip manufactures Broadcom has provided a
> debian installation file from their official website for the proper
> chipset. I tried it  but no luck

Broadcom make a lot of chips, and there are at least 4 or 5 different
drivers, some proprietary, some open source.

> vk4msl-mb ~ # lspci -k -nn | grep -A 20 -i network 03:00.0 Network
> controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
> Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01) Subsystem: Apple Inc.
> AirPort Extreme [106b:008d] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge 
> Kernel modules: ssb

That's a command you can run to determine which you have.  From there,
some of us may be able to help you.

> Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It
> is confidential and may be legally privileged.

*NOW* you bloody tell me!  Is it or is it not confidential, and if so,
what in earth is the disclaimer doing at the **BOTTOM** of your email.

Do legal people expect us to read email messages from bottom to top?
- -- 
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
  ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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#157571

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 06:33:14AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> 
> > Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It
> > is confidential and may be legally privileged.
> 
> *NOW* you bloody tell me!  Is it or is it not confidential, and if so,
> what in earth is the disclaimer doing at the **BOTTOM** of your email.
> 
> Do legal people expect us to read email messages from bottom to top?

I think you'll find legal stuff in small print at the bottom of most
documents/labels etc. The weird thing is what relevance it has on a
public mailing list. I'm guessing the OP used his work email to send the
mail and the work mail system stuck that on the end without the OPs
intervention. It is pointless hassling the OP about this.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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#157575

Stuart Longland wrote:
> > Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It
> > is confidential and may be legally privileged.
> 
> *NOW* you bloody tell me!  Is it or is it not confidential,

Not any more: he sent it to people who had not agreed in advance to keep
it confidential.

In the USA at least, these notices have no significance whatever when
they appear on messages posted to public forums like this one.  Ignore
them.  They are tacked on to all outgoing messages by some institutional
mailservers.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#157576

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 04:28:18AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 06:33:14AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > 
> > > Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It
> > > is confidential and may be legally privileged.
> > 
> > *NOW* you bloody tell me!  Is it or is it not confidential, and if so,
> > what in earth is the disclaimer doing at the **BOTTOM** of your email.
> > 
> > Do legal people expect us to read email messages from bottom to top?
> 
> I think you'll find legal stuff in small print at the bottom of most
> documents/labels etc. The weird thing is what relevance it has on a
> public mailing list. I'm guessing the OP used his work email to send the
> mail and the work mail system stuck that on the end without the OPs
> intervention. It is pointless hassling the OP about this.
> 

If you don't hassle the OP about this, OP will not mention to
their management that they are being ridiculed on the Internet
for having it, and they will not learn.

They might not learn anyway, but hassling the OP (gently,
politely, remembering that it probably wasn't their idea or
under their control) is perfectly fine.

-dsr-

-- 
https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference.
                there is no justice, there is just us.

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#157579

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On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 13:19:43 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

Hello Dan,

>If you don't hassle the OP about this, OP will not mention to
>their management that they are being ridiculed on the Internet
>for having it, and they will not learn.

And, if they're using company time to post here without the knowledge or
consent of their employer, they could loose their job.

So, win-win, then.

-- 
 Regards  _
         / )           "The blindingly obvious is
        / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
I'll be the paint on the side if you'll be the tin
Love Song - The Damned

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#157595

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The most common cause of wifi not working is missing firmware. You could
download the firmware for your hardware, if not from the main repository,
then from debian-backports (packages.debian.org)..This would definitely
server the purpose

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 13:19:43 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Dan,
>
> >If you don't hassle the OP about this, OP will not mention to
> >their management that they are being ridiculed on the Internet
> >for having it, and they will not learn.
>
> And, if they're using company time to post here without the knowledge or
> consent of their employer, they could loose their job.
>
> So, win-win, then.
>
> --
>  Regards  _
>          / )           "The blindingly obvious is
>         / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
> I'll be the paint on the side if you'll be the tin
> Love Song - The Damned
>



-- 
Himanshu Shekhar
IIIT-Allahabad
IRM2015006

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