WiFi without Kwallet?

[jglen490]

I shouldn't say this because surely it will jinx it.
Apparently Kubuntu has no time for my Linksys WMP54GS PCI card, although Win 7 likes it.
I plugged in a really cheap USB WiFI dongle and with a little stuttering, has come to life.

I will now reboot and see if it continues to work

Sounds like a WMP54GS version 3 or earlier. It probably has the BCM4306 chip, which means it would work just fine with the b43 driver, Another thing that is available through Synaptic. But if your cheap dongle works, then what the heck ...

[GregM]

I think you are correct in your evaluation.
I remember seeing all those numbers go by, or something close to them.
I think the USB dongle was just under $10 on Amazon. Seems to be pretty fast and still working.
Amazing what they can get into a tiny tiny package now.

[GreyGeek]

Your installation may not have completed itself..
Repeat these two commands over and over until both return nothing..
sudo apt -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[GregM]

I'll try that.
Thanks

[GregM]

I did it and neither appeared to yield anything.

greg@Gregs-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo apt -f install
[sudo] password for greg:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
greg@Gregs-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
greg@Gregs-OptiPlex-990:~$

Thanks for the suggestion.

[jglen490]

I think you are correct in your evaluation.
I remember seeing all those numbers go by, or something close to them.
I think the USB dongle was just under $10 on Amazon. Seems to be pretty fast and still working.
Amazing what they can get into a tiny tiny package now.

When my much more expensive wifi card died a few months back, I got one of those inexpensive dongles from Amazon. Works great and with an extension USB cable (also from Amazon), I got it away from the PC's heat and up in the air where it gets a much better signal from the wifi router.

I would recommend declaring victory and just move on with what you have, and don't worry about the other one. best of luck to you GregM!

[GreyGeek]

WiFi without Kwallet?

A couple years ago I was having trouble with my WiFi chip switching from 54Mbps to 1Mbps, which appeared like it was connecting but I couldn’t get any traffic through it. Disconnecting and reconnecting restored the 802.11g speed for 10 to 15 minutes. I tried 802.11n but couldn’t get it to connect. My WiFi was a Cisco E2500 onto which I had burned the DD-WRT firmware, which was vastly superior to Cisco’s, which in order to update it, required a sign up for a Cisco cloud account.

I purchased a cheap WiFi USB dongle from Amazon and it worked amazingly well. Gave a steady and constant 802.11g bandwidth. But, alas, the E2500 wouldn’t do native IPv6 so I looked for a WiFi which would. I found the Buffalo 600N, which would, and also allowed me to generate two signals, one at 2.4GHz and one at 5 GHz, and that using my internal WiFI ! The speed throttling between 300Mbps and 6Mbps occurred but not the disconnection, and under load it reliably switched to 300 Mbps. Spectrum gave me only 60Mbps for $70/mo but no IPv6. When fiber optic came I signed up for 100 Mbps for the same money. To compete Spectrum began offering 100 Mbps for $70. Allo jumped their $70 package to 300 Mbps, symmetrical, which is what I am now enjoying. My download speed is now more a function of what the web server allows, which is often 20Mbps or higher.

SIXX stopped its IPv6 tunnel support last June so I switched to Hurricane Electric’s tunnel, which is free and drop dead easy to install, they supply the settings and script, and becomes the default, with a less than 1 second fallback to IPv4. Generally, IPv6 gives me better speed than IPv4.

I was surprised that Allo didn’t build IPv6 into their system while they were building it, but as long as Hurricane offers free IPv6 I don’t mind. (Somebody else is paying for it, I know, but as long as it is free to me I’m going to enjoy it and vote for it. Isn’t that how Socialism works? [emoji3]. )

[GregM]

I like the extension cord idea

[bweinel]

I agree with Snowhog, you likely need to install the appropriate driver for your wifi cards chipset. A short session with Google shows that your card likely uses a Broadcom 43xx chipset.
I would recommend you have a look at installing the b43 drivers.

According to synaptic they are:

firmware-b43--installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer

The driver you install will depend on your cards chipset. Look for the Broadcom chip on the card, it should be readily identifiable.

There also seems to be a couple of different ways you could go. You can either use the b43 drivers (probably the best option) or you could install ndis drivers (an older option and probably a bit dated).

See the following posts for using the b43 driver:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1629701
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=65674

For using the ndis driver see (this post is a bit dated and may require some modification to work):
http://dossy.org/2005/03/linksys-wmp...nux-26-kernel/

Best of luck with it!

cheers,
bill

[GregM]

I wound up fixing the issue by using the cheap dongle approach, which Win7 likes as well as Bionic Beavers.
I put the pci card in my wife's Win7 computer and everyone is happy.

[bweinel]

Got it...

When momma is happy... everyone's happy!

cheers,
bill