On my Lenovo Edge-15 running 18.04.5
with kernel 4.15.0-122-generic
. Secure Boot was disabled all along.
I just noticed one day on boot that the Wi-Fi wasn't working. When I went to the Wi-Fi settings I got "No Wi-Fi adapter found". Could an automatic update have turned something off/broken something?
$ sudo lshw -class network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d1100000-d1107fff
$ lspci -vnn | grep Network
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4360] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4360]
and
$ iwconfig
vmnet8 no wireless extensions.
docker0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
enp3s0 no wireless extensions.
vmnet1 no wireless extensions.
Is Wi-Fi blocked?
$ rfkill list all
0: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
Continuing working through Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers.
$ sudo apt list bcmwl-kernel-source
Listing... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source/bionic-updates,now 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5~18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
Purging that per the instructions. Restarted and still no Wi-Fi.
$ sudo update-pciids
Downloaded daily snapshot dated 2020-10-11 03:15:01
Per the table, for 14e4:4360
I need to install
$ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter
The following NEW packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Rebooting and still no Wi-Fi.
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43
sudo rfkill unblock all
After a comment from chili555
$ sudo modprobe wl
modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory /lib/modules/4.15.0-122-generic
A quick search of the output suggests this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/811015/334823
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,544 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 linux-headers-generic amd64 4.15.0.122.109 [2,544 B]
Fetched 2,544 B in 0s (28.8 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 442641 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-generic_4.15.0.122.109_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-generic (4.15.0.122.109) over (4.15.0.122.109) ...
Setting up linux-headers-generic (4.15.0.122.109) ...
$ sudo modprobe wl
modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory /lib/modules/4.15.0-122-generic
I ran $ sudo apt install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
and it got rid of the error from sudo modprobe wl
(which now returns nothing). But still no Wi-Fi.
dmesg | grep wl
[ 52.474364] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 52.474369] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 52.478450] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 52.481565] wl driver 6.30.223.271 (r587334) failed with code 1
[ 52.481568] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_detach :
[ 52.481569] NULL ndev->ieee80211ptr, unable to deref wl1
After searching that 2nd line of output I found https://askubuntu.com/a/261934/334823, which I tried, but no change so reverted.
sudo modprobe wl
Did you read and follow this part of the link you gave? "In some computers, before performing the commands, you will need to deactivate the Secure Boot Options in your BIOS." – chili555 Oct 24 '20 at 20:05sudo apt install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
– chili555 Oct 24 '20 at 20:26sudo modprobe wl && dmesg | grep wl
? – chili555 Oct 25 '20 at 01:24