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I boot-stick downloaded Unbuntu to an off brand computer I got off Kickstarter, however the wifi driver is not working.

I have tried everything in these forums and nothing seems to work! I'm hoping you guys would be able to help me solve this issue quickly so I can get started learning this new environment.

I know the computer is compatible with 2.4 GHz. I've done all the sudo apt-get updates I can, and also checked if there were any additional driver downloads using the GUI, but no luck! I think it has a Broadcom wireless card, at least I've seen that pop up through my journey exploring the terminal. Wired ethernet connections do not work either.

Nothing happened when I tried:

$ lspci -nnk | grep 0280-A3

lspci -nnk yielded:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2280] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: iosf_mbi_pci

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22b0] (rev 36)

    DeviceName:  Onboard IGD

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: i915

    Kernel modules: i915

00:03.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22b8] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

00:0b.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22dc] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal

    Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22b5] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

00:1a.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2298] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: mei_txe

    Kernel modules: mei_txe

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:229c] (rev 36)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]

    Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich

    Kernel modules: lpc_ich

I tried sudo lshw -c network and got:

~$ sudo lshw -c network

  *-network:0 DISABLED    

       description: Wireless interface

       physical id: 1

       logical name: wlan0

       serial: 54:c9:df:44:22:79

       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723bs multicast=yes wireless=unassociated

  *-network:1

       description: Ethernet interface

       physical id: 2

       bus info: usb@1:1

       logical name: enp0s20u1c4i2

       serial: c2:a5:3e:2a:51:e9

       capabilities: ethernet physical

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipheth ip=172.20.10.6 link=yes multicast=yes

  *-network:2

       description: Ethernet interface

       physical id: 3

       logical name: enx00606ec0646e

       serial: 00:60:6e:c0:64:6e

       size: 10Mbit/s

       capacity: 100Mbit/s

       capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=dm9601 driverversion=22-Aug-2005 duplex=half firmware=Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s

~$ rfkill list all



0: phy0: Wireless LAN

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: no

UPDATE: I played around with some commands I found on other forums and have changed the iwconfig output somehow, not sure if this helps!

iwconfig output:

enx00606ec0646e  no wireless extensions.



enp0s20u1c4i2  no wireless extensions.



wlan0     unassociated  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   

          Sensitivity:0/0  

          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



lo        no wireless extensions.