I suddenly lost the wifi capability of my ThinkPad E145. The easy fixes suggested on forums did not work. System is up to date (update, upgrade, autoremove done) and there is wired internet on this computer and wifi on other devices.
Output of sudo lshw -class network is:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f1300000-f1307fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: c4:54:44:6c:bb:48
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.8 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:30 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0904000-f0904fff memory:f0900000-f0903fff
The "Additional drivers" section of Software&Updates shows:
Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries: BCM43142802.11b/g/n
- Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source from: bcmwl-kernel-source (closed)
- Device not used (This is selected)
When I want to switch (back) to the Broadcom driver, I get the following message:
"pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10(313)"
Your answers and comments are greatly appreciated!
