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[SOLVED] Wifi and Ethernet

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[SOLVED] Wifi and Ethernet

#1 Post by acer-manjaro »

Acer Aspire 4920G
Pro Wireless 3946BG
Kernel driver iwl3945
Ethernet BMC5787M (tg3)

I have no Ethernet or Wifi connection. Network Manager says its connected both wired & wireless But no Internet connection.
I tried the non-free install of Debian Jessie but could not install the iwl3945 firmware.

Methods Attempted
1. wicd install but couldn't install because [FAIL] no Enternet
2. iwl3945 as guided in debian's offical website because [FAIL] no Internet

Is there any way to install iwl3945 without Internet or by changing network manager
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#2 Post by phenest »

1. What version of Debian?
2. What Desktop Environment?
3. Output of:

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lspci -k | grep -iE "network|ethernet"
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#3 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:1. What version of Debian?
2. What Desktop Environment?
3. Output of:

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lspci -k | grep -iE "network|ethernet"
debian-live-8.7.1-amd64-gnome-desktop+nonfree.iso
GNOME Environment
During the Install it said iwl3945 can be install through a USB.

P.S I have also tried a plethora of distros also (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Manjaro 17 GNOME & XFCE, Elementry OS, Fedora & Debian) Using Remix OS (Android x86) the WiFi worked fine.

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#4 Post by phenest »

What's the output of #3? Can't help without that.
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#5 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:What's the output of #3? Can't help without that.
In a minute, doing a fresh install of the same (Debian jessie non-free)

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#6 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:What's the output of #3? Can't help without that.
UPDATE Debian fetched a link for net-install via Ethernet

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#7 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:1. What version of Debian?
2. What Desktop Environment?
3. Output of:

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lspci -k | grep -iE "network|ethernet"
bash Command not found

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#8 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:1. What version of Debian?
2. What Desktop Environment?
3. Output of:

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lspci -k | grep -iE "network|ethernet"

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 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945BG Network Connection 
*UPDATE Ethernet not working

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#9 Post by phenest »

You need to download the package firmware-iwlwifi and install manually.
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/kern ... re-iwlwifi
The download link is at the bottom. Then install as root:

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb
I don't think anything can be done about the ethernet.
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#10 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:You need to download the package firmware-iwlwifi and install manually.
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/kern ... re-iwlwifi
The download link is at the bottom. Then install as root:
dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb
I don't think anything can be done about the ethernet.
I did download the package, but in which directory should I paste it ?

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Run as root:

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

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phenest wrote:Run as root:

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

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acer-manjaro wrote:
phenest wrote:Run as root:

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb 
(Reading database ... 155327 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (0.43) over (0.43) ...
Setting up firmware-iwlwifi (0.43) ...

Saved the file in desktop (home)

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#14 Post by phenest »

Now restart your computer. Any wireless?
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#15 Post by stevepusser »

That particular Broadcom ethernet card also requires non-free firmware. The package is "firmware-linux-nonfree" for Jessie.
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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#16 Post by acer-manjaro »

phenest wrote:Now restart your computer. Any wireless?
Yes, It connected to Wifi & to a Hotspot

SOLUTION
phenest wrote:Run as root:

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dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb


Thanks It worked

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Re: HELP No Wifi or Ethernet

#17 Post by acer-manjaro »

stevepusser wrote:That particular Broadcom ethernet card also requires non-free firmware. The package is "firmware-linux-nonfree" for Jessie.

My Ethernet is not found in that list. [BCM5787M] But although there are a few that share the tg3 kernel.

Should I install that ?

Is this code alright ?

Code: dpkg -i firmware-linux-nonfree_0.43_all.deb

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Re: [SOLVED Wifi] Ethernet Issue Continues

#18 Post by phenest »

There's only one way to find out. Install it. It can't hurt.
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Re: [SOLVED Wifi] Ethernet Issue Continues

#19 Post by stevepusser »

Now that you have a connection on wifi, you can just get packages from the Debian repositories.

First you should check that your list of the repos was set up correctly--you can look at the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list with a text editor, or just with

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Cut and paste the output here.

Instructions to add the non-free section of the repo and install that package can be found in the wiki here: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo, since it also contains firmware for AMD graphics.
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Re: [SOLVED Wifi] Ethernet Issue Continues

#20 Post by acer-manjaro »

stevepusser wrote:Now that you have a connection on wifi, you can just get packages from the Debian repositories.

First you should check that your list of the repos was set up correctly--you can look at the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list with a text editor, or just with

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Cut and paste the output here.

Instructions to add the non-free section of the repo and install that package can be found in the wiki here: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo, since it also contains firmware for AMD graphics.

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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8 _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20170117-02:06]/ jessie contrib main non-free

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8 _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20170117-02:06]/ jessie contrib main non-free

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xenlism-wildfire/repo deb/

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