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Having some issues getting driver installed properly for new wireless adapter. The adapter is a TP-Link Archer T6E AC 1300. Running ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I have followed this thread to get to where I am now: Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers

After I run: sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source I can see my wireless network. After typing in the network password it looks like I am connected, but do not have internet connection.

Upon reboot, I get error messages. The following messages are from the boot log and seem relevant

loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(343): couldn't find valid drivers files for driver bcmwl6

loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(364): couldn't load driver bcmwl6

Additionally, when I reboot I can no longer see any wireless networks until I run sudo modprobe wl. After running the command, the wireless networks show up. Same issue as above - I can connect to my network but have to internet.

Output from: lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2 is 

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Broadcom Limited Device [14e4:0619]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
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A quick fix may be to remove the ndiswrapper driver with 

sudo ndiswrapper -r bcmwl6
But since it appears you may have deleted bcmwl6, you may need to 
sudo apt-get purge ndiswrapper
Reboot
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  • Thanks, I appear to be making some progress. I got rid of of ndiswrapper and now my network shows up upon re-boot, but still not getting internet. Not sure if this is a driver issue anymore. I noticed that after I purged ndiswrapper there was still a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d. My wireless networks didn't show up until I deleted this file. Anywhere else that ndiswrapper might be hanging around on my system? – CoolHandLuke Dec 30 '16 at 16:23
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    You may need to sudo depmod -a and can you ping anything after connecting. ping -c3 8.8.8.8 or ping -c3 google.com – Jeremy31 Dec 30 '16 at 16:45
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    Issue is fixed. I had already run sudo depmod -a after purging ndiswrapper and deleting the .conf file. This morning, I rebooted again and now have wireless internet. Thanks for the help! – CoolHandLuke Dec 30 '16 at 16:59