SOLVED: Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled

2017-01-13 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
It was more of a hardware maintenance issue than a kernel driver issue. Opening the back laptop cover, removing the mini PCI-E WLAN WiFi board and firmly re-seating it solved the problem. Also took the opportunity to blow dry (without the heater element) all the dust inside the laptop. On Fri,

Re: Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled

2016-04-15 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
The output of the "wireless-info" script when wireless disconnects then becomes "hardware disabled" is pasted below. ## wireless info START ## Report from: 08 Apr 2016 14:21 EAT +0300 Booted last: 08 Apr 2016 13:58 EAT +0300 Script from: 27 Sep 2015 00:34 UTC + #

Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled

2016-04-15 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Greetings. I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not connected, hardware disabled then disappearing from Network Manager. The laptop only