On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 00:54 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > My lspci output is listed. I am not able to use hotspot on my laptop, > even > with the the simple click from network settings, nor with hotspotd. > This is > something I need daily to sync my mobile devices. > Waiting for help! > > lspci -v > > 006:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 > 802.11b/g/n (rev > 01) > Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1704 802.11n + BT 4.0 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 > Memory at f7100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?> > Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting > Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel > Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-b1-ff-ff-d1-10-08 > Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> > Kernel driver in use: wl Some Googling suggests that you need to switch from the wl driver to the b43 driver. I'm not sure if that information is up to date however. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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