Checking for WIFI Drivers before installing

Asked Feb 12 '16 at 18:09

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How do I know if the ubuntu install will have my network drivers? I have a laptop with no ethernet connector, only wifi.

How can I make sure that the installation will have the wifi drivers before I try to install? Looking to install 14.04 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop.

lspci -knn | greg Net -A2

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:019]

edited Feb 12 '16 at 19:15

Pilot6

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asked Feb 12 '16 at 18:09

S.Mason

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Boot from Live USB and check the adapter. It should work. – Pilot6 Feb 12 '16 at 18:11
Booted to live Kubuntu 14.04 CD. No wi-fi drivers seem to be loaded. I looked at Network Settings and there is no option to configure wifi. I guess that means no support for my hardware? Thank you for the suggestion. – S.Mason Feb 12 '16 at 18:32
Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 terminal command. You probably need to install drivers. – Pilot6 Feb 12 '16 at 19:09
Sure, the output is as above. I would think that's a fairly common driver as broadcom is a popular wi-fi adapter. – S.Mason Feb 12 '16 at 19:15
So it is supported. – Pilot6 Feb 12 '16 at 19:16
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Possible duplicate of How to install Broadcom wireless drivers offline – Pilot6 Feb 12 '16 at 19:16
Broadcom is indeed popular BUT broadcom has no love for Ubuntu ;) – Rinzwind Feb 12 '16 at 19:17
But there are still drivers. Installing offline is not quite easy. I really have no clue why the installer can't do it easier, since the driver is on the installation media. – Pilot6 Feb 12 '16 at 19:18
I believe the earlier version of bcmwl-kernel-source included in 14.04 doesn't yet support the newer 14e4:43b1. I suggest you try the live USB for Ubuntu 15.10 instead. – chili555 Feb 12 '16 at 20:16

Checking for WIFI Drivers before installing

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