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Offline cjcboy2

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[SOLVED] Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« on: October 04, 2011, 10:16:05 PM »
Hi!

I recently discovered that my wireless LAN isn't working. Checking the Network Center, there isn't any SSIDs found even it switch is turned ON. Can someone tell me a quick tweak?

Thanks

Jessie
« Last Edit: October 09, 2011, 09:45:49 PM by cjcboy2 »
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Re: Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2011, 07:35:04 AM »
what wifi card is installed in it?

atheros or realtek?

please open console and write lspci, post the resutls
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Re: Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2011, 07:11:09 PM »
Hi!

I think it is a Broadcom brand:

details as follows:



00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
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Re: Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2011, 07:31:53 PM »
yes, it seems to be a broadcom bcm4313

there is some posts with this adapter, seems to be a bit problematic

i did a search in the forum and found this post

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,77797.0.html

it seems that you need to use it with ndiswrapper, using a windows driver
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Re: Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2011, 02:44:37 AM »
T6 is right.  The BCM4313 can be problematic.

First make sure you are fully updated and then tell us which kernel version are you using (command "uname -r") and also give us the output from "lsmod" command.
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Re: Lenovo S10-3 WiFi
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2011, 09:45:32 PM »
Apparently this has been solved via update. After I installed several of it, and pressing Fn + F5 (enabling WLAN) presto! it my network just showed up.

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