Wireless

[steve7233]

I have to downgrade to yakaty, which means a fresh install. Is there a way to tell the installer to use firmware-b43 or whatever the package is for my wireless. It is in my other thread. Can I point to it on the HD? How. Thanks. Apparently it is also needed for the Ethernet as I can't get Internet with the wire in yakaty as well.

[steve7233]

I managed to get the wifi working. I told Yakaty I wanted to try the distro. I ran divermanager which found the wifi firmware. The eathernet is still broken. I am going to try using apt to install it. I have to search for my old thread for the package name.

[steve7233]

I never could get the Ethernet to work. Since the wireless is now working then I will install it and see If the wired is still broken after rebooting.

[GreyGeek]

Is your eth0 chip functioning? After lightening hit my computer my eth0 would give me a name but it would never connect when configured. I purchased a $12 USB 1Gigabit Ethernet adaptor and got my eth0 back.

[steve7233]

Is your eth0 chip functioning? After lightening hit my computer my eth0 would give me a name but it would never connect when configured. I purchased a $12 USB 1Gigabit Ethernet adaptor and got my eth0 back.

WiFi and wired work just fine in 16.04.

[steve7233]

After installing and rebooting into yakaty they're is no internet! No WiFi PR wired. I tried Driver manager but it appears to be broken. It only installs to 50% and then refreshes. How do I get the driver installed?

[jglen490]

Have you tried to find your driver via Muon or Synaptic? Assuming you actually have a BCM43xx wireless chip, the firmware seems to be available and installable.

[vinnywright]

I tried Driver manager but it appears to be broken. It only installs to 50% and then refreshes. How do I get the driver installed?

the GUI driver manager has been broken for a few releases now ,,,,,,, the command line ver. still works .

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$  ubuntu-drivers -h
usage: ubuntu-drivers [-h] [--package-list PATH] <command>

List/install driver packages for Ubuntu.

positional arguments:
<command>            See below

optional arguments:
-h, --help           show this help message and exit
--package-list PATH  Create file with list of installed packages (in
                     autoinstall mode)

[COLOR=#ff0000]Available commands:
 devices: Show all devices which need drivers, and which packages apply to them.
 list: Show all driver packages which apply to the current system.
 debug: Print all available information and debug data about drivers.
 autoinstall: Install drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation.[/COLOR]

using the "devices" gives the best readout IMO

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$  ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000119Asv00001558sd00000376bc03sc00i00
model    : GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-381 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-370 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-378 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-375 - distro non-free

== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

if you want to take it's "recommendations" then you could use it's "autoinstall" command .

VINNY

[steve7233]

Dosnt work as no internet. Is there a way to use another computer or the DVD?

[steve7233]

the GUI driver manager has been broken for a few releases now ,,,,,,, the command line ver. still works .

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$  ubuntu-drivers -h
usage: ubuntu-drivers [-h] [--package-list PATH] <command>

List/install driver packages for Ubuntu.

positional arguments:
<command>            See below

optional arguments:
-h, --help           show this help message and exit
--package-list PATH  Create file with list of installed packages (in
                 autoinstall mode)

[COLOR=#ff0000]Available commands:
devices: Show all devices which need drivers, and which packages apply to them.
list: Show all driver packages which apply to the current system.
debug: Print all available information and debug data about drivers.
autoinstall: Install drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation.[/COLOR]

using the "devices" gives the best readout IMO

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$  ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000119Asv00001558sd00000376bc03sc00i00
model    : GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-381 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-370 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-378 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-375 - distro non-free

== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

if you want to take it's "recommendations" then you could use it's "autoinstall" command .

VINNY

I selected the disc in my apt sources list so apt will check the disk. When it asks for the disk then I insert it, wait for the read then press enter. Apt didn't seem to see the disk. Perhaps some kind of mount/apt bug? I tried inserting the DVD before entering the command: E: Unable to lock the administration directory (var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? Unless there is a background process - I just booted the computer - then the answer is no. Can you say bugged?... Next suggestion please?

I found out it is looking in /media/CDROM but auto mount is /CDROM. CDROM is lower case but my Kindle changed it to upper case.