Wireless connection with HP-17 Laptop/Linux Mint 18.2
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Wireless connection with HP-17 Laptop/Linux Mint 18.2
Two days ago, I bought a HP-Laptop 127-bs011dx. Everything works, except wireless (driver). NO indication of wireless on the screen. Connected via the ether net. Now using the desktop.
Ran lsusb. Realtek is the maker of the wireless device.
ID 0bda:b009 Realtek Semiconductor Cooperation.
My 1st LapTop. Would someone help address this problem. Have been on the HP site, very hard to move around on it.
Which might mean adjusting sources.list for non-free (or universe for ubuntu flavors).
$ sudo ifconfig -a
$ ip link show
It should show up there if it's working (or pretending to work). It might be called something like wlp1s0 or wlo1 instead of wlan0 on modern distros. At least it still starts with a "W".
I have the hp 15-ba053nr and it uses the rtl8723be module. Hardware wise it has connections for two antennae, but mine only has one antennae connected to the 2nd connector. Which means I have to pass a module parameter or the signal strength is too weak to be usable.
bob@bob-HP-Laptop-17-bs0xx ~ $ ip link -show
Command "-show" is unknown, try "ip link help".
bob@bob-HP-Laptop-17-bs0xx ~ $ ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 30:e1:71:35:74:85 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
bob@bob-HP-Laptop-17-bs0xx ~ $
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non-free firmware is not available by default on debian. You have to change the sources.list file to have those. And apt-get update once that change is made. Plus flavor-updates entries and security ones, for ubuntu the naming is slightly different, like universe instead of contrib and non-free.
My sources.list for debian testing (buster), upgraded from stretch.
Code:
#deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
The first commented line is what was originally there unmodified, except for the comment (#) change.
non-free firmware is not available by default on debian. You have to change the sources.list file to have those. And apt-get update once that change is made. Plus flavor-updates entries and security ones, for ubuntu the naming is slightly different, like universe instead of contrib and non-free.
My sources.list for debian testing (buster), upgraded from stretch.
Code:
#deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
The first commented line is what was originally there unmodified, except for the comment (#) change.
He is using linux mint, linux mint has that repos available for default, it is not Debian.
I am sorry to be so "Thick", however I'm in "software sources", and see nothing concerning "non-free". So, I'm tring apt-get install install firmware-linux-nonfree
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
Something like that should be in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Once that exists, then $(apt-get update) and try the other commands again. But it depends on what version you're using. testing? stable? sid? experimental? Lots of options. There's probably an IRC channel if you need more official / direct correspondence versus this post and wait and wait and wait forum.
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