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I have been trying different things to get my Broadcom wireless card working on my Dell Latitude D630 laptop. Everything I have tried runs me into a dead end. I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on it with the Ubuntu 14.04 installation disc in the disc drive. I am at the point where I'd like to go step by step with help from the community to resolve this issue. Note: I do not have a wired internet connection available to me, all I can do is download files to my phone and transfer them to my laptop by USB. Please help!

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  • If your phone is a somehow modern smartphone - it must be otherwise you wouldn't be downloading with it - surely it can do USB tethering. That's all you need. –  Sep 04 '16 at 03:02
  • I have a Windows phone and there is no option for USB tethering, also I don't have a data plan for my phone, I only use it's Wi-Fi. – geo Sep 04 '16 at 03:46
  • On that post I jumped to "How to install Broadcom wireless drivers offline". After copying the two files to my home directory I ran in terminal: sudo dpkg -i *.deb The terminal displays a bunch of activity and then says: depmod.... DKMS: install completed.

    Then it hangs there and nothing happens. All I can do is close the terminal and then it says Close this terminal? There is still a process running in this terminal. Closing the terminal will kill it

     – geo Sep 04 '16 at 16:12
  • did you manage to get a solution in newer versions yet? – Zanna Dec 11 '16 at 08:01

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Okay, so, after many hours of dealing with this, I finally found an answer. First, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 instead of 14.04. Then I followed the steps on this page: Installing "firmware-b43-installer" offline

So for some reason the newer version of Ubuntu was causing the problem.

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