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After installing 14.04 LTS on a HP Probook 6560b my wifi does not work, on the web I found this Ask Ubuntu question and proceeded as follows :

lspci -vnn | grep Network

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1503] (rev 04)
25:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

iwconfig

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

lo        no wireless extensions.

lspci -nn  -d 14e4:
25:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

Looking in the Broadcomm Wireless Table I found bcmwl-source as possible solution and continued

sudo update-pciids

sudo add-apt-repository restricted

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-generic

 sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring 

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernelsource

E: Unable to locate package bcmwl-kernelsource
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  • I wanted to add this to Askubuntu question 55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers. As I am unfamiliar to this forum it became a new question – Newbie May 20 '16 at 15:49
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    The package name is bcmwl-kernel-source. – fkraiem May 20 '16 at 16:08
  • Sorry for my late reply but I simply forgot to respond. I corrected my typing error and immediately could install bcmwl-kernelsource . My Broadcomm wifi is working fine now, thanks a lot – Newbie Jun 16 '16 at 12:59
  • I would like to close this question, the answer by fkraiem solved my problem – Newbie Dec 09 '16 at 12:25

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