{"id":760,"date":"2016-04-04T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=760"},"modified":"2016-04-04T22:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:49:17","slug":"wireless-on-asus-x200m-netbooks-ubuntu-15-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Wireless on Asus X200M netbooks: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We resently bought several Asus X200 series<\/a> netbooks for our faculty members. The main attraction of this\u00a0 cute\u00a0 netbook is its\u00a0 light weight and a built in HDMI port. We plan to use them extensively for\u00a0\u00a0 content delivery in class rooms. These\u00a0 machines are really cheap, costing around Rs17000 ( around $260).\u00a0 The base model comes with Intel\u00ae Celeron\u00ae Dual-Core ~ 2.58 GHz Processor and 2GB ram, DOS operating system. It has an 11.6 inch LED display.<\/p>\n

Our idea was to put \u00a0 ubuntu 14.04 and deploy the machines. The machine has an ethernet port and wifi port.\u00a0 Installation of Ubuntu 15.10 was a smooth affair.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the broadcom wifi interface did\u00a0 not work out of the box. Here is what I did to fix the issue.<\/p>\n

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  1. Find out which wifi chip is used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    $lspci \"broadcom<\/a><\/p>\n

    The wifi chip is\u00a0 Broadcom Corporation BCM43142. You have to download and compile the kernel module for this chip.<\/p>\n

    2) Make sure that the machine is connected to internet and the apt sources are properly set up<\/p>\n

    3) Update\u00a0 the machine<\/p>\n

    $ sudo apt-get update<\/p>\n

    4) Finally instal the\u00a0 bcmwl driver.<\/p>\n

    $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms build-essential bcmwl-kernel-source<\/p>\n

    This will downlad necessary driver\u00a0 your wifi will be up and running. The above line installs dynamic kernel module support<\/a>\u00a0 and compiles the broadcom wireless driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We resently bought several Asus X200 series netbooks for our faculty members. The main attraction of this\u00a0 cute\u00a0 netbook is its\u00a0 light weight and a built in HDMI port. We plan to use them extensively for\u00a0\u00a0 content delivery in class rooms. These\u00a0 machines are really cheap, costing around Rs17000 ( around $260).\u00a0 The base model… Continue reading Wireless on Asus X200M netbooks: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}