So far, none of this worked, still no wireless showing. driver direct from the manufacturer before you begin installing Compiz. She can't have it wired all the time so this is kind of required. Ubuntu doesn't start wireless networking automatically during the boot process. by the b43 or b43legacy drivers (PCI-ID: 14e4:43a0). I can set her email etc, but idk about what to use for video - is there VLC in software center? Do i need codecs?īut first thing's first. Broadcom wireless wl module installation Broadcom wireless wl module installation.
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Like, do i still need to install restricted extras? What do i need to do to a fresh installation? She'll be using it for internet, office, email and watching movies from time to time. Now bear in mind, i haven't done this in a while and i have 0 knowledge about what has changed from the last time i dealt with ubuntu so i might need more info except just wireless if that's ok.
Heres (part of) my lspci -k: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 0611 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek. So I could successfully install the package you provided the link for (thanks), but my chipset is still not recognised. It has efi, /boot, swap, /, and /home partitions (adding this info just in case it's relevant).Įverything so far is dandy, except i can't get wireless to work. Re: Solved Broadcom wireless-bcm43142 driver. 'lspci' showed that the internal wifi card is a Broadcom BCM4311. I used Driver Manager to activate the proprietary Broadcom driver (also checked the hardware wireless switch was on) but wifi still didnt work. It was beyond repair so i wiped the whole disk and installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it. After a fresh install of LM 19.1 onto the laptop everything worked well except there was no wireless. I'm fixing my mother's laptop that had a Windows 8 on it.