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defacto7

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7. Did you find any other conflicting drivers?

Sun Nov 5, 2017, 10:23 PM

Nov 2017

If there are other wifi drivers or even incorrect Broadcom drivers it will re-block your wifi.

And yes, look in your bios...

It also looks like you have 2 hardware drivers. Do you actually have 2 wifi network cards or harware? If you know you are using Broadcom, blacklist the hp one exactly as it's presented there or find the actual driver name. If you rfkill unblock both, they may turn off again if they're not happy together.

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Linux Mint 18.1 won't recognize wireless connections [View all] bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 OP

did you just install it d_r Nov 2017 #1

It sometimes depends on your hardware... defacto7 Nov 2017 #2

HERE might be some useful info ---- bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #5

It means.. defacto7 Nov 2017 #6

wow, thanks ... no rfkill didn't work bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #10

Good luck. defacto7 Nov 2017 #11

One other stupid question... defacto7 Nov 2017 #3

Well thanks for the suggestions so far bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #4

Did you find any other conflicting drivers? defacto7 Nov 2017 #7

do I have to unblock the router firewall or unblock outgoing traffic? bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #8

These have nothing to do with a firewall. defacto7 Nov 2017 #9

Yes, connection established bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #12

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