Problem installing Wifi drivers dell

Question

My PCI id is 14e4:4365

I am using trusty.

I tried to install drivers from this thread How do I install BCM43142 wireless drivers for Dell Vostro 3460/3560? and Broadcom 4365 wireless driver with 3.4 / 3.5 kernel Initially it was working well. After somedays I had to reboot everytime for installing wifi drivers. Recently I installed KDE and from that time it stopped working even after reboot.

My kernel version is 3.13.0-35-generic. Please help me I am struggling with this driver. Also Is there some way I can change the driver to another say with different pci id.

Edit: The answer was to remove b43 line from /etc/modules as Jeremy pointed out. Also I had some other conflicting driver which was to be removed.

Jeremy31 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-19T16:16:25.673

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With Trusty and the 3.13 kernel, it should be as simple as

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

And it might work without rebooting http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/amd64/bcmwl-kernel-source/download

This updated version might fix it now

edited Feb 19 '15 at 16:16

answered Feb 19 '15 at 12:02

Jeremy31

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Tried that, doesn't work – iLoveCamelCase Feb 19 '15 at 12:03
Another driver might be conflicting, show dkms status – Jeremy31 Feb 19 '15 at 12:20
wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms, 6.20.55.19~bdcom0602.0400.1000.0400: added Yeah looks like it is – iLoveCamelCase Feb 19 '15 at 12:22
wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script and copy the contents of the wireless-info.txt file it creates and paste the contents to paste.ubuntu.com and post the URL – Jeremy31 Feb 19 '15 at 12:34
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/10307460/ – iLoveCamelCase Feb 19 '15 at 12:38
I was repeatedly doing purge and install and it installed after 5th or 6th time!! Don't know why? – iLoveCamelCase Feb 19 '15 at 13:31
I think you need to remove that old dkms package, remove b43 from /etc/modules and remove the entire sudo line from /etc/rc.local as that package shouldn't need to be installed at every boot – Jeremy31 Feb 19 '15 at 15:14

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