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Strange problem. Built my laptop (dual with Win7) with 64 bit 13.10 in January of this year. Added a lot packages (Chrome, LibreOffice, PipeLight w/Wine patches (for NetFlix), et al). Got everything working. Never had a problem with wireless.

Got busy doing other stuff and did not boot Linux again till last week. Now, wireless does not work. Connects but you can not ping the router. No changes whatsoever to the Linux build since last used. Only thing that changed was the Comcast router. I had to upgrade -- man I hate Comcast. Anyway, the only difference I found with the router is that it hands out 10. addresses instead of 192.168. addresses out of the box. I know this as I had some fixed IPs on some PCs and had to change them. But I can't figure out why my wireless is wacked. So, before I do anything drastic like rebuilding the whole shebang, I figured, I would ask here and see if anyone can point out what I have overlooked. I manually copied the scirpt suggested for this type of question:

Wireless-info.txt

Ran the script but I can't see anything in the output that points me at the solution.

Jack
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I believe the driver you've installed is incorrect for your 14e4:4727 device. Please get a temporary wired ethernet connection, open a terminal and do:

sudo -i
apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
echo brcmsmac >> /etc/modules
exit

Reboot and your wireless should be operating correctly.

chili555
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