How to enable Wifi drivers in Linux

[@redescubriendo7609]

Stuff like this is why Windows will never be dethroned.

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Haha, I cant say that I disagree!! 😄

[@rfdunbar]

Best video on yt regarding this subject! Thanks for posting!

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Thank you watching and for the compliments!!

[@gradom.mp4]

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

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@babelcria]

Thank you I adapted to connect my Dell laptop to wifi

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Cool, glad it worked for you!

[@user-rr7ub2ih3w]

@@BlueMonkey4n6 ater I restarted started the same problem again. Why is that?

[@clintonbaptista1948]

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]

Hmmm, thats a mystery. Perhaps the driver and your version of Linux is not compatible? Which flavor and version of Linux are you running?

[@pulkitjain8135]

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

[@gradom.mp4]

Same with me

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

@devman__ try doing an update/upgrade, that solved it for some folks

[@SaunterVaguelyDown]

New to Linux. But the [lsmod | grep -e wl -e brcmfmac] and the [sudo modprobe brcmfmac] did nothing. No response from terminal at all. 🤷‍♀️

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Are you running your linux distri on a mac or a machine that uses the broadcom chipset? Otherwise it would do nothing.

[@aadityamaharaj4082]

Same issue, booting it from a pendrive

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Same question for you: are you running on a Mac? or a machine that uses the Broadcom chipset?

[@aadityamaharaj4082]

@@BlueMonkey4n6 nope dell inspiron

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@ringoman08]

Yes exactly what i was looking for

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

So glad this was useful. Thanks for watching and the comment

[@perriebrown]

I'm saving this video for when my wifi driver disappears again. Note to self: iwlwifi (Intel driver)

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Glad you found something useful in this video!

[@0silvaa]

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!

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

What Linux distro is this? Trying to do this in Arch Linux Install Media is fairly frustrating for me…

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@tsa_94]

Can you help me my LAN and wifi is not showing, internet is not coming and none of the icons are showing.

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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?

[@muflihkaradan8476]

I have mediatek chipset.how do I solve this??..please reply

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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

[@pleaseenteraname1215]

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?

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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?!

[@aadityamaharaj4082]

It’s saying that the command Lshw not found what do I do?

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@aadityamaharaj4082]

Ahhh thanku

[@Jibale_]

@@BlueMonkey4n6same not found, apt not found too …. on fodera

[@ibrahimtarhan9043]

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 )):

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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

[@ibrahimtarhan9043]

@@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

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Try doing the update first: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

[@ibrahimtarhan9043]

@@BlueMonkey4n6 not working headers problems

[@zahvownsall]

what about for mediatek chipsets?

[@muflihkaradan8476]

Bro My lap also this mediatek chipset.did you solve the problem...please reply this??

[@zahvownsall]

@@muflihkaradan8476 if your laptop doesnt come with a network driver than natively supports linux, you wont be able to use linux.

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show?

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

which mediated chipset is your machine using? what does lspci or inxi show?

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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.

[@zamadahmad]

Will this work on linux mint 22

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

I am not sure as I have not personally tried it on Mint. Can anyone else verify?

[@KavinChaudhary-i6p]

@@BlueMonkey4n6 its not working

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Thanks for chiming in

[@KavinChaudhary-i6p]

@@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

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

@KavinChaudhary-i6p glad you resolved the problem

[@linux_wala]

Pls esa hi parrot os ke liye bana do

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

Google translated into English: “Pls make this for the parrot”. Yes, let me see what i can do. Thanks for the suggestion

[@user-le3mz1ie3s]

sorry did not work

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

What version of OS and what hardware are you using?

[@JustalanYT]

​@BlueMonkey4n6 this doesn't work for me either and I'm using linux Lite 6.6

[@mdhtDEV6070]

Didnt work here for mintos​@@BlueMonkey4n6

[@mdhtDEV6070]

​@@BlueMonkey4n6for me the commands :lsmod , modprobe dont work

[@sveu3pm]

but WHY arent modules loaded ? if you can detect correct module in 3 lines cant also somebody write OS code to do this ?

[@BlueMonkey4n6]

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