On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, mercator <mercator2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to > show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below is > my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : > > 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) > > > My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off > etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of > wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi > on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know),
I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV. Cheers, Tom
