How to install Wireless drivers?

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I went around Google and looked on YouTube for some videos, but for whatever reason, nothing worked. I tried going into "Additional drivers" and switching the driver that way, but nothing actually changes. It just stays stuck either applying the changes or nothing happens.

I currently have an ether net connection set up temporarily, so I am able to access the web. However, I want this fixed as soon as possible.

Any help greatly appreciated.

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company U98Z049.00 Wireless Mini PCIe Card [103c:1507]
 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

Update: The output to lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; rfkill list

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company U98Z049.00 Wireless Mini PCIe Card [103c:1507]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 terminal command. — Pilot6, Jul 19 '16 at 15:20
To find how to install your wireless card driver you first need to find out what chip it has, after finding out you should try to find an alternative way to connect to the Internet (such as LAN connection), then you'll need to google your card chip name and search for linux driver, it'll probably have a git repository that will have all the explanations for how to install it in the description. if you'll provide your wireless card brand name & model we might try to help you to find out what you're looking for. — Itay, Jul 19 '16 at 15:19
agreed, but for some reason I can't comment yet (I must have at least 50 points) — Itay, Jul 19 '16 at 15:22
Thank you. But, how do I check for my wireless card brand name and model? — Anonymous Master, Jul 19 '16 at 15:25
@Moohooses Please read my command under your question and provide the output. — Pilot6, Jul 19 '16 at 15:28
What is the command. I don't see it. (Sorry, I'm new to this forum.) — Anonymous Master, Jul 19 '16 at 15:31
Can you see my comments under YOUR QUESTION? And this is not a forum. It is a question @ answer site. — Pilot6, Jul 19 '16 at 15:33
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company U98Z049.00 Wireless Mini PCIe Card [103c:1507] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge — Anonymous Master, Jul 19 '16 at 15:35

Pilot6 · Answer 1 · 2016-07-19T16:07:36.793

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Short answer.

Go to System Settings -> Software & Updates.

Make sure that main, universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are checked.

Then remove DVD disks as software sources, then

run in terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

and reboot.

It looks like you used some daily build to install the system, not the final release. But that does not matter much if you do all the previous actions.

edited Jul 19 '16 at 16:07

answered Jul 19 '16 at 15:40

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