I have an Inspiron 1525 with windows 7 on it. I shrank the partition and installed Ubuntu 16.04. I now have no way to connect to the internet via WI-FI in the Ubuntu GUI. I swap to Win7 and have Wi-Fi just fine. Should I try a wired connection and do the upgrade or driver installs or what??
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Yes, that is a good idea :-) – sudodus Jun 17 '17 at 22:24
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you can alo getthe drivers while in windows and save them, then mount the windows partition so linux can read the files. what wifi card do you have? – ravery Jun 17 '17 at 22:29
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3please. provide some information about your wifi card. – Jun 17 '17 at 23:00
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I believe, without the machine in front of me, JR356 miniPCI-E...... Additional drivers / propreitary drivers brought to my attention the wireless Braodcom and i swapped to the propreitary driver then restart and still nothing. – Cr33p D3Ath Jun 19 '17 at 13:27
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I am user Cr33pD3ath got a New user name and email. I found the Driver issue resolve from this page: (Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers) Just a note after: [sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer] [sudo reboot]
I had to follow up with:
[sudo modprobe -r b43]
[sudo modprobe b43]
[sudo rfkill unblock all ]
Once that was complete No-Fi issue fixed!! Wifi is on and working great, so far. Thanks for the help!!!
BMac
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