<div dir="ltr">HP loves to put cheap crap in their laptop, chances are you have a crappy broadcomm wifi adaptor.<div><br></div><div>From a command prompt, run the following (there are 3 seperate commands enclosed in quotes, you do not need the quotes):</div>
<div>"lspci |grep -i net"</div><div>"iwconfig"</div><div>"lsmod |grep 80211"</div><div><br></div><div>On my lenovo t430 with Intel wifi, I get the following:</div><div><div> lspci |grep -i net</div>
<div>00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)</div><div>03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3e)</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>
lsmod |grep 80211</div></div><div>mac80211 627172 1 iwldvm<br></div><div><div>cfg80211 528535 3 iwldvm,mac80211,iwlwifi</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>iwconfig</div><div>eth0 no wireless extensions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>lo no wireless extensions.</div><div><br></div><div>virbr0 no wireless extensions.</div><div><br></div><div>wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" </div><div>
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX </div><div> Bit Rate=130 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm </div><div> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off</div><div>
Power Management:off</div><div> Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm </div><div> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0</div><div> Tx excessive retries:85603 Invalid misc:28 Missed beacon:0</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Pete Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pnwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pnwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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.)<br>
</div>In all cases my final solution was to get a little USB WiFi stick and use that with the HPs.<br></div>grins<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Pete<br>
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lhbcomm@gmail.com" target="_blank">lhbcomm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br>
<br></div>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.<div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Ryan Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandmsthompson@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryandmsthompson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2013-07-22 6:08 PM, "Lawrence H. Bulk" <<a href="mailto:lhbcomm@gmail.com" target="_blank">lhbcomm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandmsthompson@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryandmsthompson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 13-07-22 09:35 AM, Lawrence H. Bulk
wrote:<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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Hope that helps ...<br>
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