by Martin Brinkmann on March 27, 2015 in Linux - Last Update: January 04, 2018 - 89 comments
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I had to reinstall the operating system on my Thinkpad laptop and decided to install Linux Mint on it instead of Windows 8 or 10, the operating systems that were previously installed on it.
I have a HP mini note 2133, with 1024 x 600 resolution screen.There were some issues with the wireless network (broadcom) card not working on the system, on ubuntu 9.10 I could not get the wireless card to work at the same time as the broadcom card.When I installed the system the screen worked fine but as soon as I installed the driver for the network card the screen stopped working.The. The website for all Linux Mint users. Broadcom driver, wireless. I had been reading the forum threads and was getting no where.I installed Mint 'Julia' on a HP. What I have: Lubuntu 16.10 running on HP 2133. First, fixed wifi issue installing firmware-b43 as suggested here: No Wifi with Lubuntu 14.04 on HP Netbook Next, tried to improve the screen resolution as it stuck on 640x480. There has been quite a bit of discussion and celebration in the Linux community recently because Broadcom released an open-source driver for their wireless networking adapters. I just successfully installed Linux Mint 18 XFCE edition on my mini 2133. I only had to download the broadcom wireless firmware (on my 4211agn I only get the G band though) and the openchrome drivers (to enable my 1280×600 screen resolution).
The installation of the Linux distribution wentfine. I had to use the Universal USB Installer to copy the ISO image to a Flash drive since the device I wanted to install Linux Mint on had no optical drive.
The laptop booted into the Live Linux Mint environment on boot after connecting the USB Flash Drive to it and making sure that the boot order would pick it up prior to operating systems on the hard drive.
The installation went fine and the first boot after it booted right into the Linux Mint desktop (after entering the password I used to encrypt the data on the device).
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I noticed then that the operating system did not pick up any wireless connections even though some were available in the vicinity. The only connection options were wired, and since I was not able to make use of that, I had to find out what was going on.
First thing I did was open the Driver Manager to find out if the wireless adapter was installed properly. You find the Driver Manager in the second column after selecting Administration in the first.
It displayed that the wireless adapter was not installed and let me know that I needed a wired connection or Linux Mint on USB to install it. I connected the USB drive again, switched from 'do not use this device' to the device in question and clicked on apply changes afterwards to install the necessary drivers.
So, one option to grab the right drivers is to connect the Linux device via a wired cable to the Internet. Or, and that is also an option, you could use the Linux Mint copy on the USB device for that as well.
Linux Mint picked the driver up from the Flash Drive I installed the operating system from. After the install finished, wireless connections became available when I clicked on the connections symbol in the system tray area.
All I had to do was pick the right wireless network from the list and enter the password to connect to it.
As a user coming from Windows, I wish this would be a bit easier. On Windows, wireless networking is installed by default so that you can connect to the Internet right away without having to install device drivers first (in the majority of cases at least).
I'd imagine that this operation could be problematic for users who give Linux a try and cannot figure it out on their own.
How to get Wifi working in Linux Mint after installation
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Broadcom Sta Wireless Driver Linux Mint
Find out how to enable wireless networking on Linux Mint after installing the operating system if WiFi connections are not working.
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