Dell Vostro 1510 WiFi Problem

Question

I have an old laptop,Dell Vostro 1510. I needed to install Kubuntu 14.04.3 on it. It doesn't recognize the wireless. I entered:

lspci -nn | grep 0280

in a terminal, as @chili555 suggested in question 547746 right here in ask ubuntu, and the outcome is:

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

Kubuntu 14.04 recognized wireless while live. I know there are some questions exactly about this on www.askubuntu.com but none have reached an end. Thank you

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '15 at 22:14

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You need to connect to internet by wire and run

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

answered Sep 08 '15 at 22:14

Pilot6

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 22:01

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Open source drivers have some issues with this card. The official drivers should work. Download the binary file from here. It must be one of the first two depending on your architecture. After download,

tar -xvf /path/to/archive
make
make install

This should work.

answered Sep 08 '15 at 22:01

jiraya_sama

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This driver does not support this adapter. And there is no need to install it from source anyway. – Pilot6 Sep 08 '15 at 22:03
The driver supports BCM4312. This adapter is giving some extra trouble I don't know why. I am not sure if it is supported by any driver in official repo. – jiraya_sama Sep 08 '15 at 22:06
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It is supported by b43 – Pilot6 Sep 08 '15 at 22:13

Dell Vostro 1510 WiFi Problem

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