On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:41:27PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: > OK, I probably have my system all messed up. Here's the sequence of > events: > > Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130 > chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the legacy > 304xx driver, so I followed all the instructions on the wiki for > installing said driver. This broke the system. X would not start, I > have only command line. > > Not being really up to speed on everything needed to fix the system, and > having tried several thing to no avail, I boot to rescue mode, using the > installer environment so that previous root is not mounted. I deleted > everything, except /root and /home, wherein I have data I do not want to > lose, in order to start with a basically clean slate. > > I download and burn the jessie net-install CD and boot to that and > install jessie. > > My broadcom wireless (using the BC4321 AG chipset) will not come up. > This is not unexpected, there is no firmware installed as of yet for > that NIC. > > I follow all of the instructions on wiki for obtaining the firmware and > installing it to bring the card up (which worked in a previous > incarnation of the system). The card still will not come up. Check the syslog and/or dmesg. The kernel SHOULD log a message to the effect that it has found the firmware and loaded it. > > I pulled out the old driver I was using which I got from broadcom, and > had installed it in the past to get everything working. I attempted to > install it using the instructions provided with the driver (which had > worked in the past). The card still will not come up. > > I do an lspci | grep Network command and the controller does show up > (03:00.0). As an interim measure, are you able to install using a different (e.g. wired) adapter. You may find getting the firmware to work on an installed system easier than on the installer. > > What the devil am I doing wrong, and how do I get my wifi adapter back?? > Note that I had used the firmware-b43-installer package in a past jessie > incarnation and it worked great. > > -- > JM -- For more information, please reread.
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