{"id":370,"date":"2014-10-09T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/?p=370"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:07:17","slug":"wifi-problems-with-ideapad-s10-3t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Wifi problems with Ideapad S10-3t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just encountered severe problems with the wireless card on my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t. While my netbook connected to the access point I could not use the connection in the common sense, so not even a ping within my network arrived.<br \/>\nWhile playing around a bit, trying to understand which kernel modules are installed and how they were built, I encountered that the recent update to Kubuntu Trusty Tahr also installed new drivers. Maybe this problem doesn&#8217;t exist for a fresh install but only with the update. Who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I found the solution on <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/55868\/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/55868\/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe surprinsingly simple solution for my specific hardware (I have a Broadcom BCM414 with the PCI id 14e4:4727) is to remove the <code>bcmwl-kernel-source<\/code> package and just use the drivers shipped with the <code>linux-firmware<\/code> package.<\/p>\n<p>Now Wifi works again, but my netbook is complaining about having found proprietary drivers which might be required to grant access to all my hardware&#8217;s functions. I will find a solution to get rid of this message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just encountered severe problems with the wireless card on my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t. While my netbook connected to the access point I could not use the connection in the common sense, so not even a ping within my network arrived. While playing around a bit, trying to understand which kernel modules are installed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}