Installatie Ubuntu on a HP Pavilion G6, pfff....#
- nomodeset as extra kernel boot parameter (to prevent black screen during boot)
- mess with wireless driver :
- sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer fails....
root@hplaptop:~# lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
So, we would need the brcmsmac driver. And blacklist the bcma driver.
After a long journey, found out that 11.04 just works out of the box (later releases also dont work properly with the wireless driver)
A second repair action (after my brother "accidently" upgraded his ubuntu) took again many hours, I finally decided to use the latest Mint (13 , "Maya") distribution, and figured out the wireless works after installing the restricted drivers (via the standard Ubuntu configuration menu), and manually blacklisting the following drivers:
My daughter's Lenovo Thinkpad E135 had the same louzy wireless driver, I managed to get that one working by just installing the bcmwl-kernel-source package.
blacklist ssb blacklist brcm80211 blacklist brcmfmac blacklist brcmsmac blacklist bcma blacklist bcm43xx blacklist b43 blacklist b43legacy
The list of modules now looks like this:
pavilion modprobe.d # lsmod |grep -v snd Module Size Used by lib80211_crypt_tkip 17240 0 wl 2646601 0 lib80211 14040 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl rfcomm 38139 0 bnep 17830 2 bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep parport_pc 32114 0 ppdev 12849 0 binfmt_misc 17292 1 vesafb 13516 1 hp_wmi 13652 0 sparse_keymap 13658 1 hp_wmi wmi 18744 1 hp_wmi uvcvideo 67203 0 joydev 17393 0 i915 414568 0 mac_hid 13077 0 psmouse 87140 0 drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915 serio_raw 13027 0 videodev 86588 1 uvcvideo drm 197692 2 i915,drm_kms_helper rts_pstor 353215 0 mei 36570 0 i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915 video 19068 1 i915 lp 17455 0 parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp usbhid 41906 0 hid 77367 1 usbhid r8169 56321 0
