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5:16 PM

Today i installed elementary os loki, and installed some broadcom driver. Without knowing what drivers to install. It enabled my wireless option. It lists some wifi name, but not my wifi. How to fix this?

Zanna

you can ask about that on elementary OS but make sure you give details of your wireless card. You can probably see them by running the command lspci -knn | grep -A2 Net

Man_From_India

I don't know what i did but it showed broadcom 14e4:1713

Elementary os chatroom seems like everyone abandoned it years back. So tried this room.

jokerdino

broadcom is the worst

Man_From_India

Yup

But how to fix this

Zanna

@Man_From_India that's not enough info... you need the card name, something like BCM...

This room is not a room where people who know how to fix wifi hang out

Man_From_India

5:21 PM

Ok. I will provide. How to know it?

@Zanna :'(

Zanna

this question has instructions on how to run a script to get all possible useful info about your wireless

but you should be able to get the info with the command I gave up there ^^^^ did you try it?

lspci -knn | grep -A2 Net

jokerdino

@Man_From_India you should try our general room.. but it's the weekend :/

Zanna

maybe you have a card that we already have a question about and it might help you

jokerdino

broadcom is a pretty common source of annoyance so we probably would have covered it

Zanna

but hey it's weird that it lists all the other networks except yours...

maybe it's not the stupid card's problem but something to do with the stupid network...

aww I made him cry and then he went :(

I suck

jokerdino

5:27 PM

this boat is not big enough to hide for long.

Zanna

hides behind dino

Man_From_India

Well previously i had the same issue in ubuntu

I can't remember how i figured out. Probably i updated the 3rd party driver from ubuntu gui

But here no such option.

I roughly remember someone mentioned that it has to be channel 13 or something. We need to change the channel

I have no idea how to change the channel.

jokerdino

seems to be kernel issue I guess

Zanna

oh... I thought that channel changing thing was an ISP thing

jokerdino

the driver doesn't allow the adapter to see networks which are on channels 12 or 13..

Zanna

5:41 PM

funky driver...

you change the channel on your router...

jokerdino

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