No internet

[Chrisdb]

What does the following tell us:

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lsmod | grep ssb

[Winston]

I tried the Installation guide at https://wiki.debian.org/wl, then followed the Configuration instructions for Gnome at https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse. One problem with that is that my Debian install didn't include the System Tray, so I had to install that. After that, I couldn't find the applet, but a check with ip addr shows I now have 3 interfaces - but the apparent wireless (2) still doesn't ping yahoo.com and 8.8.8.8 with the ethernet cord disconnected.

ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlp12s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1f:3a:a1:9d:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.13/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic
noprefixroute wlp12s0
valid_lft 83239sec preferred_lft 83239sec
inet6 fe80::bd5:90ad:c065:bcd3/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:09:cf:f2:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.10/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic
noprefixroute eth0
valid_lft 86044sec preferred_lft 86044sec
inet6 fe80::21d:9ff:fecf:f251/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

So it looks like I now have a wireless connection that doesn't work by itself. Even commenting out B43 and b43legacy in /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf blackmails didn't help, which is probably logical since wl doesn't use them.

I remain puzzled and wireless-less. Did I miss something?

Blacklist is currently
cat /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf
# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
#blacklist b43
#blacklist b43legacy
#blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb

I'm wondering if my wl package needs updating, but I get:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bcmwl-kernel-source

Apparently I need to add a new location to my sources.list, but I have no idea what.

[Winston]

lsmod | grep ssb
ssb 90112 2 b43,b44
pcmcia 69632 1 ssb
mmc_core 176128 5 b43,sdhci,ssb,cqhci,sdhci_pci

[Chrisdb]

Apparently I need to add a new location to my sources.list, but I have no idea what.

See 'add contrib non-free after main':
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Exa ... urces.list

lsmod | grep ssb
ssb 90112 2 b43,b44
pcmcia 69632 1 ssb
mmc_core 176128 5 b43,sdhci,ssb,cqhci,sdhci_pci

the 'ssb' module is conflicting with 'wl'

Try the following as root (the order of commands is important here):

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modprobe -v -r b43 b43legacy b44 ssb brcmsmac bcma
modprobe -v wl 
modprobe -v b44

Let us know if this worked.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

but the apparent wireless (2) still doesn't ping yahoo.com and 8.8.8.8 with the ethernet cord disconnected

Was the routing table updated by NetworkManager after you unplugged the cable?

Check with

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ip r

The "default via" line should show your router's IP address for the wireless interface.

Note that NetworkManager will refuse to control any devices listed in /etc/network/interfaces{,.d/*} so clear any references to wlp12s0 from those files.

Also, you seem to have a traditional interface name for the cable connection but a "predictable" name for the wireless device, which is weird

And please edit your posts to enclose all of your terminal output with code tags, it will make the thread more readable.

[Winston]

root@Debian:/home/mike# /sbin/modprobe -v -r b43 b43legacy b44 ssb brcmsmac bcmarmmod b44
rmmod libphy
rmmod mii
rmmod ssb
rmmod pcmcia
rmmod pcmcia_core

root@Debian:/home/mike# /sbin/modprobe -v wl

root@Debian:/home/mike# /sbin/modprobe -v b44
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.ko

With ethernet cord connected
root@Debian:/home/mike# ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (98.137.246. 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com (98.137.246.: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=73.8 ms
64 bytes from media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com (98.137.246.: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=73.10 ms
64 bytes from media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com (98.137.246.: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=72.0 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 received, 25% packet loss, time 24ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 72.024/73.261/73.982/0.932 ms

Without ethernet cord
root@Debian:/home/mike# ping yahoo.com
^Z
[1]+ Stopped ping yahoo.com

Still no wireless

[Winston]

root@Debian:/home/mike# lp z
lp: Error - unable to access "z" - No such file or directory

root@Debian:/home/mike# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

[Winston]

Oops
root@Debian:/home/mike# ip z
Object "z" is unknown, try "ip help".

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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root@Debian:/home/mike# ip z
Object "z" is unknown, try "ip help".

Read my post again, carefully this time.

And use code tags for terminal output or I'm out. The quote button will show you how I've edited your post to do that.

[Winston]

Sorry, the old eyes ain't what they used to be.

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root@Debian:/home/mike# ip r
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp metric 100 
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp12s0 proto dhcp metric 600 
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.13 metric 100 
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp12s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.14 metric 600 

root@Debian:/home/mike# ip r
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp metric 100
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp12s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.13 metric 100
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp12s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.14 metric 600

Not sure which you want, so used both code and quote.

[Winston]

I don't think interfaces is a problem. Here's the file:

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root@Debian:/etc/network# cat interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Directory interfaces.d is empty.

[Chrisdb]

are you able to ping your gateway (without ethernet)

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ping -c 5 192.168.1.1

what's the output of the following commands (without ethernet)

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ip addr
ip r
cat /proc/net/arp

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000

That looks strange but I don't use NetworkManager so I don't know what's normal for that.

I would disable NM completely and try connecting manually to narrow down the source of the problem.

Not sure which you want, so used both code and quote.

Code tags are for code, quote tags are for quotes. It's confusing, I know.

[Winston]

chrisdb: No
With ethernet

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mike@Debian:~$ ping -c 5 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.627 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.509 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.457 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.416 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.410 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 88ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.410/0.483/0.627/0.084 ms

Without ethernet

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mike@Debian:~$ ping -c 5 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 103ms

The commands without ethernet

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mike@Debian:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlp12s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1f:3a:a1:9d:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.13/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp12s0
       valid_lft 84879sec preferred_lft 84879sec
    inet6 fe80::21f:3aff:fea1:9d42/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1d:09:cf:f2:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
mike@Debian:~$ ip r
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp12s0 proto dhcp metric 600 
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp12s0 scope link metric 1000 
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp12s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.13 metric 600 
mike@Debian:~$ cat /proc/net/arp
IP address       HW type     Flags       HW address            Mask     Device
192.168.1.1      0x1         0x2         9c:3d:cf:ba:88:f0     *        wlp12s0

[Chrisdb]

It could be an issue with the driver.
Something else you can try as root:

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apt-get purge broadcom-sta-dkms
apt install firmware-b43-installer 

Now reboot and try again.

Make sure you check the blacklist (b43 should not be blacklisted).

[Winston]

Head_on_a_Stick:

Winston wrote:

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169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000


That looks strange but I don't use NetworkManager so I don't know what's normal for that.

Yes, it's strange, but apparently due to NetworkManager, per packetlife.net/blog/2008/sep/24/169-254-0-0-addresses-explained.

I would disable NM completely and try connecting manually to narrow down the source of the problem.

I spent most of the afternoon figuring out how to disable NM and configure /etc/network/interfaces using https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigur ... _Interface and https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse. So now I have the below and it does bring up ethernet, but wireless is still not working. In addition, reboot stalls with the message "A start job is running for Raise network interfaces." for a bit more than 6 minutes, though it finally reboots. My revised interfaces file:

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cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# my ethernet

auto eth0

allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth0 inet6 dhcp

# my wifi device 

allow-hotplug wlp12s0.

iface wlp12s0. inet dhcp

     wireless-essid Corniche5

     wireless-mode Master

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

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sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2020-02-26 16:05:05 EST; 36min ago
     Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
 Main PID: 445 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Feb 26 16:00:32 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582750832.1148] agent-manager: req[0x556c036619c0, :1.45/org
Feb 26 16:02:10 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582750930.7029] device (eth0): carrier: link connected
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582751105.2807] caught SIGTERM, shutting down normally.
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian systemd[1]: Stopping Network Manager...
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582751105.3036] dhcp4 (wlp12s0): canceled DHCP transaction, 
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582751105.3037] dhcp4 (wlp12s0): state changed bound -> done
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582751105.3037] device (wlp12s0): DHCPv4: 480 seconds grace 
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian NetworkManager[445]: <info>  [1582751105.3506] exiting (success)
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Succeeded.
Feb 26 16:05:05 Debian systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager.

[Winston]

Chrisdb:

It could be an issue with the driver.
Something else you can try as root:

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apt-get purge broadcom-sta-dkms
apt install firmware-b43-installer


Now reboot and try again.

Purge works fine, but

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mike@Debian:~$ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installer
mike@Debian:~$ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb'

sources.list updated, probably wrong because I'm not familiar with sources. ftp.us.debian.org is the new line.

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.3.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20200208-12:07]/ buster main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.3.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20200208-12:07]/ buster main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main

# buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main 
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster main contrib

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

[Winston]

Chrisdb:

The link for firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb came from following the directories at https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/ ... r/download

[Winston]

Chrisdb - Update

Found some more links to put in /etc/apt/sources.link, and sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer worked.

BUT now reboot stalls on a line "A stop job is running for Raise network interfaces" for a bit more than 6 minutes before reboot completes.

Now on ping 8.8.8.8 without the ethernet connection, I get

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From 192.168.1.14 icmp seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable

which means the default gateway is misconfigured
The hostname command gives 2 different answers, but resolv.conf is still correct

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mike@Debian:~$ hostname -i
127.0.1.1
mike@Debian:~$ hostname -I
192.168.1.14               
mike@Debian:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1

192.168.1.14 is the address of the laptop itself.

arp now has 3 addresses, the gateway and two of my network printers with fixed addresses

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mike@Debian:~$ cat /proc/net/arp
IP address       HW type     Flags       HW address            Mask     Device
192.168.1.51     0x1         0x2         50:5b:c2:2a:a8:b5     *        eth0
192.168.1.1      0x1         0x2         9c:3d:cf:ba:88:f0       *        eth0
192.168.1.50     0x1         0x2         b0:ea:bc:30:d4:21     *        eth0

The broadcom blacklist file no longer exists

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mike@Debian:/etc/modprobe.d$ ls
dkms.conf

ip now shows wireless as wlan0 instead of wlp12s0

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mike@Debian:/etc/modprobe.d$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1d:09:cf:f2:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.14/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic eth0
       valid_lft 82371sec preferred_lft 82371sec
    inet6 fe80::21d:9ff:fecf:f251/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1f:3a:a1:9d:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

The broadcom-sta-dkms.conf blacklist file is gone

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mike@Debian:/etc/modprobe.d$ ls
dkms.conf

So I'm thinking I should re-install broadcom-sta-dkms and reset things as they were before it was removed. Do you agree?

[Chrisdb]

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer_019-4_all.deb

This is not the way to install packages on Debian
see: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement

you're missing the non-free repo in your sources. Take a look at the second example from the following link:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Exa ... urces.list
To add backports, use the third example

BUT now reboot stalls on a line "A stop job is running for Raise network interfaces"

Did you deactivate NetworkManager?

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systemctl disable NetworkManager

Also, what does your final 'interface' file look like?

Did you configure wpa_supplicant?
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant