Chicken Wings Vs Academy Regarding Wifi

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nassausky
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Chicken Wings Vs Academy Regarding Wifi

Unread post by nassausky » Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:30 pm

Would anyone happen to know why the plain vanilla version of Academy shows my laptop wifi card while Chicken Wings doesn't when they both use the same kernel. Is it a loadable mod that is missing.

The Dell laptop shows via lspci as a Broadcom BCM312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

Thanks for any help

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Re: Chicken Wings Vs Academy Regarding Wifi

Unread post by dkeg » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:11 pm

It probably is not kernel related, or at least solely.
  • Could be related to the module not being loaded. Test with

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    sudo modprobe [...]
    
    Or, could it be related to this
    And lastly, did you try to upgrade (assuming its a new install), then install the driver?

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Re: Chicken Wings Vs Academy Regarding Wifi

Unread post by nassausky » Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:14 am

Thanks. I hope to be testing this out tomorrow. Will keep you all posted

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