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llasarov

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Registered: 2019-11-23

Posts: 1

WiFi connection not possible (MacBook 2008) & no networks shown

Hello,

I'm starting the Q4OS live CD in order to test the distro. It looks pretty good but I still have my doubts since I'm not able to establish a WiFi connection to my router at home.
In the left bottom corner the Network Manager ist shown and it has a LAN connection already installed. Then I add a new wireless connection and at this point I'm expecting to see all available wireless networks. It's not happening so I'm trying by adding the network data manually, incl. password. Then the new connection is shown but its status is shown as "Never used". When I start the browser and try to visit some internet page or when I try to install some software package, the system is responding that a connection to the internet is missing.

Can you tell me how can I inspect whether the WiFi module on my MacBook is working properly? Also I need a method to manage my network connections - the one I'm using is not reliable for me.

Thank you in advance.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: WiFi connection not possible (MacBook 2008) & no networks shown

Q4OS can handle wireless networks, so we would guess a hardware dependent issue. You could try to connect using 'nmtui' utility, just run in terminal:
$ nmtui
and post a result here.

tlmiller76

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From: AZ, USA

Registered: 2016-11-29

Posts: 455

Re: WiFi connection not possible (MacBook 2008) & no networks shown

Most macbooks have Broadcom wireless modules.  Probably will need to install the broadcom-sta-dkms package while on an ethernet connection to get it working.

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Q4OS Trinity machine - Crelander E160.  Intel Celeron N5105, 16GB LPDDR4, 512GB m.2 SATA SSD, Intel UHD graphics, Intel 7265 Wifi 5 + BT 4.x, 16" 3072x1920 LCD.

Midas

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Registered: 2017-12-15

Posts: 191

Re: WiFi connection not possible (MacBook 2008) & no networks shown

Thank you, tlmiller76.

Installing 'broadcom-sta-dkms' solved my lack of wifi on a modded Asus EeePC-1015PEM (the wifi adapter was replaced by a Broadcom BCM4322 (rev 01) with PCI ID [14e4:432b]; FYI, RAM has been upgraded to 2GB and the hard-drive to an Intel SSD 520).

Trying to pay it forward -- network adapter hardware can easily be identified via command console with:

$ lspci -nn