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Ubuntu won't find any wifi near me to connect and I don't know how. I was fine connecting to wifi with windows 7 but now I can't connect to any or find wifi.

Can't find any wifi

Here is the output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list: 

09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Dell NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [1028:01cc]
    Kernel driver in use: tg3
    Kernel modules: tg3
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: ssb
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list terminal command. – Pilot6 Jul 11 '17 at 05:33
  • This is what showed up: 'grep: A3: No such file or directory 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no' – Nova Bot Jul 11 '17 at 13:15
  • Please copy and paste the command, or be more careful while typing. And post the result TO YOUR QUESTION. – Pilot6 Jul 11 '17 at 13:25

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Short answer:

Connect to the internet by wire and run

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

After that reboot or run

sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

Your Wi-Fi should work.

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