Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

[Gustin Johnson]

HP loves to put cheap crap in their laptop, chances are you have a crappy
broadcomm wifi adaptor.

>From a command prompt, run the following (there are 3 seperate commands
enclosed in quotes, you do not need the quotes):
"lspci |grep -i net"
"iwconfig"
"lsmod |grep 80211"

On my lenovo t430 with Intel wifi, I get the following:
 lspci |grep -i net
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev
3e)

lsmod |grep 80211
mac80211              627172  1 iwldvm
cfg80211              528535  3 iwldvm,mac80211,iwlwifi

iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

virbr0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.18 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

          Bit Rate=130 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=66/70  Signal level=-44 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:85603  Invalid misc:28   Missed beacon:0

Your HP will be different since they tend to favour the cheap and crappy
BCM-NNNN wifi NICs.  If it sounds like I strongly dislike HP it is because
I do.  The worst laptop I have ever owned was an HP.


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't know if this may make you feel better or just muddy the water
> further, but I have had similar problems with more than one HP laptop
> (including one mini) with only Windows installed. In fact the first time I
> used Linux for work was during a desperate effort to revive the WiFi on an
> HP lap. (Linux didn't help with that, but I soon realized I needed to use
> Linux more and Windows less, so the effort was not wasted.)
> In all cases my final solution was to get a little USB WiFi stick and use
> that with the HPs.
> grins
> Pete
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk <lhbcomm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  If you cannot go into the top panel to ensure that <Enable Wi-Fi> is
>> activated, and function keys do not work, then go into the Settings
>> Manager->Users and Groups->Advanced Settings (enter computer's
>> password)->User Privileges. Check each and every option and then accept.
>> (If you do not see an Apply or Accept button at the bottom, click on Tab,
>> then click on Right Arrow, then hit Enter.) Close the Advanced Settings by
>> hitting Enter, then go back in to make sure that your changes were
>> accepted. If they are, close out everything, restart your computer, and see
>> if you then have Wi-Fi connectivity and/or the option to activate same.
>>
>> If all this does not work, then I'm afraid I am at a loss to help you.
>> Someone a lot smarter than I will have to step in. But I can tell you that
>> there is probably some simple solution to this problem (EVERYTHING in Linux
>> is simple once you know the answer!) so do not give up. There is certainly
>> a way to have your computer connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Ryan Thompson <ryandmsthompson at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, I don't even have the option to activate wifi in my
>>> network options.  I've tried manually creating one but no luck there.  Any
>>> thoughts?
>>> On 2013-07-22 6:08 PM, "Lawrence H. Bulk" <lhbcomm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I should also mention that you should go to the top panel and open the
>>>> network connection icon. Make sure that <Enable Wi-Fi> is activated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Thompson <
>>>> ryandmsthompson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  On 13-07-22 09:35 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  It is possible that your netbook has a <FN + {key}> (may be F11)
>>>>> combination necessary to activate its Wi-Fi; both of my netbooks do. Try
>>>>> looking it up for your particular netbook or just try all the combinations
>>>>> to see if one works. Also make certain that your BIOS is set to its default
>>>>> settings.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hope that helps ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
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