@redescubriendo7609, Right you are and solution like this, may dethrone Windows because in Windows if the card / adapter doesn’t work, you have to throw it out of the window and buy a new one.😊
The entire procees in this video is same as shown in my device which is zorin 16 in it and my chipset is BCM43142 but when i pass lspci command it not showing the kernel module line after subsystem
that's a good question. I dont have your exact setup so I can only guess that the problem may be that you dont have the driver on your OS. Download it by: $ sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source Since you dont have WiFi working, you can connect to the Internet via a Ethernet connection or you can use your cellphone as a tether. Hope that helps.
Like, subscribe and everything, this saved my life, thought I was gonna go through the pain of going back to windows. Thanks a lot! The most useful and easy solution for this issue by far.
Do you have an ethernet port you can connect to so you can get the ifconfig/iwconfig tools? Maybe use ip instead if that is available. If lspci does not return any Network devices, you can try inxi or lshw
Thanks to @BlueMonkey4n6 and @skydev-j6c for your reply but I have switched to Fedora as this is the only Linux distro which is working out of the box and without any problem. Thanks again.
@@skydev-j6c I have switched to Fedora as it is the only distro which is working flawlessly without any error. But thank you and @BlueMonkey4n6 for suggestions.
My wifi on laptop was working fine. After updating, no wifi. I am on Debian bookworm 12.8 and running the lspci command shows, kernel modules: iwlwifi. Running lshw command shows, command not found. Running inxi command shows, command not found. lsmod command shows iwlwifi is loaded. sudo modprobe iwlwifi does nothing.
did you try to use lshw -class network or inxi -N to see what hardware is in your system? Once you see the hardware, you can Google to see if there are drivers available.
Solution didn't worked for me, lspci command didn't show kernel module line and showed nvme kernel driver which was also mentioned in output of lsmod command ans modprobe command didn't do anything
Linux has so many flavors that there is no way that anything works on "all" distros. I am pretty confident that it will run on most Ubuntu and Fedora variants.
Thanks for the video! Now i can connect to the wifi, but the internet still doesn't work for some reason. The drivers are installed and updated for the network adapter and i restarted the pc and router. The weird thing is i can connect to my phone hotspot via wifi and the internet works, does that mean its a problem with the router or are some settings messed up in my install? Thanks in advance!
If you connect your phone or other device to the router, do you get the internet? It could be that the router itself is not connected to the internet. Or that the router is not configured correctly and it is not assigning an IP and netmask to the PC.
I did this with the CAINE 12 distro which is based on Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately all the different distros does make things frustrating with Linux and drivers.
Is this common problem as I have suffered from this few times but I do get ethernet , I just reboot and wifi works again Im excited to run into it again to try and solve it this way. is there any way I can self induce this problem?
It is common enough of a problem especially if you deal with a lot of different pieces of hardware like me (I'm in Digital Forensics and Incident Response). In terms of self inducing this problem, I guess you can replicate it but adding a piece of hardware that doesn't have the drivers already on the system or else you can use modprobe to remove the corresponding module, then you can manually load it again. Not sure why you would want to inflict such pain on yourself?!
There are many reasons for why this is happening. Let's start with the basics. What distro are you running? When you connect the ethernet cable for the LAN, do you see the lights blink? When you scan from your wifi adapter, do you see any networks at all?
If people are running Linux from a bootable USB or install direct to the internal drive so it doesnt matter what drivers come with the Windows laptop. One will need to make sure that the distro they are running does contain the driver, otherwise they will need to download the driver.
which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show? If you have the MT7902, I have seen that chip is not supported thru kernel 6.3
so there were no wireless chips at all or literally nothing comes back when you run lspci? What hardware are you running on and what version of Linux OS?
The Dell Inspiron does not use the broadcom chipset so you wont see a response if you are looking for that. What is the output of the lspci command? I think for the Inspiron you should see the Intel chipset so the driver should be something like iwlwifi. That is what you should modprobe for.
@@BlueMonkey4n6 i find the problem in my device when I do in driver manager there are 2 options for my pc 1st broadcom-stk-dkms 2nd do not use this device when I choose the 1st then it stops working so I just switched to the 2nd option I don't know the disadvantages of the 2nd option but not my wifi is working correctly
O hi can you help me what im do my drivers is not show im trying command on your videos but not work İm take Warning when grep a-3 "(network controller Brodcome İnc. and subsidiaires BCM43162 802.11ac Wireless Subsystem)"" İ guess my drivers not loaded and i cant load kernel Help me )):
so when you do the grep command and see the BCM43162 chip set, does it say what drivers are used? if not, most likely you will need the Broadcom b43 so try: $ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer $ sudo apt install net-tools $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
I'm running LMDE with realtek chipset - RTL8852BE. I have tried all the commands shared in the video and can confirm that I have the necessary drivers for this wireless chipset. To make matters worse, the required modules are also loaded into the latest kernel but still I see access points, just the toggle to enable/ disable wireless. Can you advise what could possibly be the problem?
@@BlueMonkey4n6 that is the really good about linux thank you! I'm new to linux but really like Debian and Q4OS. I am just fixing a friends old pc and really enjoy learning about linux. I just need to find the right linux to change him and Zorin just looks super nice. Thank you for the video and great explanation!
so there were no wireless chips at all or literally nothing comes back when you run lspci? What hardware are you running on and what version of Linux OS? Some viewers suggest running with sudo
That is a really good question. In the case of my setup, the default blacklister in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf has the brcmfmac specifically blocked from autoloading. It is likely that when this distro was created, someone thought that the bcm43 driver will enable the wireless but obviously it doesnt work for us. Hence we had to manually modprobe the proper driver
Stuff like this is why Windows will never be dethroned.
Haha, I cant say that I disagree!! 😄
"o que é de graça custa mais caro", mas "o que é comodo é mais perigoso"
@redescubriendo7609, Right you are and solution like this, may dethrone Windows because in Windows if the card / adapter doesn’t work, you have to throw it out of the window and buy a new one.😊
In the big debate of whether Windows or Linux is better, my response has always been “I hate computers…”
@@BlueMonkey4n6This comment made me a subscriber to your channel. 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Best video on yt regarding this subject! Thanks for posting!
Thank you watching and for the compliments!!
I’m agree with you it is that all we need
Thank you I adapted to connect my Dell laptop to wifi
Cool, glad it worked for you!
@@BlueMonkey4n6 ater I restarted started the same problem again. Why is that?
The entire procees in this video is same as shown in my device which is zorin 16 in it and my chipset is BCM43142 but when i pass lspci command it not showing the kernel module line after subsystem
that's a good question. I dont have your exact setup so I can only guess that the problem may be that you dont have the driver on your OS. Download it by:
$ sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source
Since you dont have WiFi working, you can connect to the Internet via a Ethernet connection or you can use your cellphone as a tether. Hope that helps.
Like, subscribe and everything, this saved my life, thought I was gonna go through the pain of going back to windows. Thanks a lot! The most useful and easy solution for this issue by far.
So glad you found this solution useful and easy (and saved your life)!
Yes exactly what i was looking for
So glad this was useful. Thanks for watching and the comment
@BlueMonkey 4n6, in Rocky Linux 'ipconfig' and 'iwconfig - command not found!!! 😱
'lspci -knn | grep Network -A3' or 'lspci -knn | grep -e Network -A3' don't return anything. 😞
I am sooooo frustrated. 😭
Do you have an ethernet port you can connect to so you can get the ifconfig/iwconfig tools? Maybe use ip instead if that is available. If lspci does not return any Network devices, you can try inxi or lshw
You have resolve it? If not, you try switched to your user to su user and run the commands ipconfig and iwconfig or run sudo /sbin/[command] ?
Thanks to @BlueMonkey4n6 and @skydev-j6c for your reply but I have switched to Fedora as this is the only Linux distro which is working out of the box and without any problem. Thanks again.
@skydev-j6c outstanding suggestion!
@@skydev-j6c I have switched to Fedora as it is the only distro which is working flawlessly without any error. But thank you and @BlueMonkey4n6 for suggestions.
My wifi on laptop was working fine. After updating, no wifi. I am on Debian bookworm 12.8 and running the lspci command shows, kernel modules: iwlwifi. Running lshw command shows, command not found. Running inxi command shows, command not found. lsmod command shows iwlwifi is loaded. sudo modprobe iwlwifi does nothing.
Will this work with tails os? Same thing with me it shows no wifi adaptor or drivers so I can't run tails os
It should although every time you reboot you will need to redownload and install the drivers unless you change your boot ISO
I'm using ubuntu server. When I type 'lspci -knn | grep Network -A3' I can't see any kernel modules. What can I do? 😢
did you try to use lshw -class network or inxi -N to see what hardware is in your system? Once you see the hardware, you can Google to see if there are drivers available.
Solution didn't worked for me,
lspci command didn't show kernel module line and showed nvme kernel driver which was also mentioned in output of lsmod command ans modprobe command didn't do anything
Same with me
@devman__ try doing an update/upgrade, that solved it for some folks
Thanks I think I it looks like when I ran "sudo modprobe wlwifi it worked." I think the powersave settings messed with the wifi stuff
Cool, thanks for the feedback, glad it worked for you
does this work on all distros of Linux.
Linux has so many flavors that there is no way that anything works on "all" distros. I am pretty confident that it will run on most Ubuntu and Fedora variants.
@@BlueMonkey4n6 so it should work if i am using Linux Mint. And what about bluetooth devices
Thanks for the video!
Now i can connect to the wifi, but the internet still doesn't work for some reason.
The drivers are installed and updated for the network adapter and i restarted the pc and router.
The weird thing is i can connect to my phone hotspot via wifi and the internet works, does that mean its a problem with the router or are some settings messed up in my install?
Thanks in advance!
If you connect your phone or other device to the router, do you get the internet? It could be that the router itself is not connected to the internet. Or that the router is not configured correctly and it is not assigning an IP and netmask to the PC.
What Linux distro is this?
Trying to do this in Arch Linux Install Media is fairly frustrating for me…
I did this with the CAINE 12 distro which is based on Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately all the different distros does make things frustrating with Linux and drivers.
When i ran :lspci -knn l grep Network -A3
There is no line named kernal module ,where can i find kernal module name
Is this common problem as I have suffered from this few times but I do get ethernet , I just reboot and wifi works again Im excited to run into it again to try and solve it this way. is there any way I can self induce this problem?
It is common enough of a problem especially if you deal with a lot of different pieces of hardware like me (I'm in Digital Forensics and Incident Response).
In terms of self inducing this problem, I guess you can replicate it but adding a piece of hardware that doesn't have the drivers already on the system or else you can use modprobe to remove the corresponding module, then you can manually load it again. Not sure why you would want to inflict such pain on yourself?!
I have tried everything still the network is unclaim. Both the wl and iwlwifi already installed
Can you help me my LAN and wifi is not showing, internet is not coming and none of the icons are showing.
There are many reasons for why this is happening. Let's start with the basics. What distro are you running? When you connect the ethernet cable for the LAN, do you see the lights blink? When you scan from your wifi adapter, do you see any networks at all?
what about for mediatek chipsets?
Bro My lap also this mediatek chipset.did you solve the problem...please reply this??
@@muflihkaradan8476 if your laptop doesnt come with a network driver than natively supports linux, you wont be able to use linux.
which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show?
which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show?
If people are running Linux from a bootable USB or install direct to the internal drive so it doesnt matter what drivers come with the Windows laptop. One will need to make sure that the distro they are running does contain the driver, otherwise they will need to download the driver.
It’s saying that the command Lshw not found what do I do?
Its “lshw” in all lowercase. If that is not found you would need to do “sudo apt install lshw” to get it installed to your system.
Ahhh thanku
@@BlueMonkey4n6same not found, apt not found too …. on fodera
I have mediatek chipset.how do I solve this??..please reply
which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show?
If you have the MT7902, I have seen that chip is not supported thru kernel 6.3
On the lspci command I got nothing. I did tried to modprobe for the iwlwifi since I’m using an intel core, but still, nothing works…
so there were no wireless chips at all or literally nothing comes back when you run lspci? What hardware are you running on and what version of Linux OS?
@@BlueMonkey4n6 hey, thank you very much for your reply, I did fixed it somehow, but thank you still!
New to Linux. But the [lsmod | grep -e wl -e brcmfmac] and the [sudo modprobe brcmfmac] did nothing. No response from terminal at all. 🤷♀️
Are you running your linux distri on a mac or a machine that uses the broadcom chipset? Otherwise it would do nothing.
Same issue, booting it from a pendrive
Same question for you: are you running on a Mac? or a machine that uses the Broadcom chipset?
@@BlueMonkey4n6 nope dell inspiron
The Dell Inspiron does not use the broadcom chipset so you wont see a response if you are looking for that. What is the output of the lspci command? I think for the Inspiron you should see the Intel chipset so the driver should be something like iwlwifi. That is what you should modprobe for.
Will this work on linux mint 22
I am not sure as I have not personally tried it on Mint. Can anyone else verify?
@@BlueMonkey4n6 its not working
Thanks for chiming in
@@BlueMonkey4n6 i find the problem in my device
when I do in driver manager there are 2 options for my pc
1st broadcom-stk-dkms
2nd do not use this device
when I choose the 1st then it stops working so I just switched to the 2nd option
I don't know the disadvantages of the 2nd option but not my wifi is working correctly
@KavinChaudhary-i6p glad you resolved the problem
O hi can you help me what im do my drivers is not show im trying command on your videos but not work
İm take Warning when grep a-3 "(network controller Brodcome İnc. and subsidiaires BCM43162 802.11ac Wireless
Subsystem)""
İ guess my drivers not loaded and i cant load kernel
Help me )):
so when you do the grep command and see the BCM43162 chip set, does it say what drivers are used?
if not, most likely you will need the Broadcom b43 so try:
$ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
$ sudo apt install net-tools
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
@@BlueMonkey4n6 (kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$
udo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bcmwl-kernel-source
ı take this warning
Try doing the update first:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
@@BlueMonkey4n6 not working headers problems
I'm running LMDE with realtek chipset - RTL8852BE. I have tried all the commands shared in the video and can confirm that I have the necessary drivers for this wireless chipset. To make matters worse, the required modules are also loaded into the latest kernel but still I see access points, just the toggle to enable/ disable wireless. Can you advise what could possibly be the problem?
Hmmm, thats a mystery. Perhaps the driver and your version of Linux is not compatible? Which flavor and version of Linux are you running?
Pls esa hi parrot os ke liye bana do
Google translated into English: “Pls make this for the parrot”. Yes, let me see what i can do. Thanks for the suggestion
I hate Zorin OS 🤣 Only one that gives me problems
The good (and bad) thing about Linux is that there are many flavors you can choose from. Try something different 😉
@@BlueMonkey4n6 that is the really good about linux thank you! I'm new to linux but really like Debian and Q4OS. I am just fixing a friends old pc and really enjoy learning about linux. I just need to find the right linux to change him and Zorin just looks super nice. Thank you for the video and great explanation!
Lspci show nothing
so there were no wireless chips at all or literally nothing comes back when you run lspci? What hardware are you running on and what version of Linux OS?
Some viewers suggest running with sudo
@@BlueMonkey4n6linux mint
Some viewers have suggested running with sudo will get them results
sorry did not work
What version of OS and what hardware are you using?
@BlueMonkey4n6 this doesn't work for me either and I'm using linux Lite 6.6
Didnt work here for mintos@@BlueMonkey4n6
@@BlueMonkey4n6for me the commands :lsmod , modprobe dont work
but WHY arent modules loaded ? if you can detect correct module in 3 lines cant also somebody write OS code to do this ?
That is a really good question. In the case of my setup, the default blacklister in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf has the brcmfmac specifically blocked from autoloading. It is likely that when this distro was created, someone thought that the bcm43 driver will enable the wireless but obviously it doesnt work for us. Hence we had to manually modprobe the proper driver