Ubuntu Lenovo bcm43162 WiFi Driver

Question

I want to install Ubuntu on my Lenovo z51 Laptop. It has a Broadcomm bcm43162 Wifi Card.

When I boot into the Live CD, it doesnt have WiFi. When I go into the terminal and try:

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

It installs succesfully, but I still dont have a network connection.

A year ago I've managed to get it to work on my Ubuntu partition, but it got corrupted and I've forgotton how I did that.

I've tried Linux Mint, Manjaro & Ubuntu but they all don't seem to work.

But I've already stated that when I try

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

Nothing happens. And I can't reboot since I used the Live CD, because I want it to work first before I format my main partition.

When you check your device with lspci -nn, does it sat that firmware-b43-installer is correct for your device? — chili555, Jan 10 '18 at 13:39
It cant even find it. E: Unable to locate package: firmware-b43-installer. — MitchellWeg, Jan 10 '18 at 13:47
According to lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3, and next referring to the duplicate, what is the correct driver for your device? I strongly suspect that it is NOT firmware-b43-installer. — chili555, Jan 10 '18 at 14:08
Then what is? b43 firmware is the only thing that pops up if you search for my WiFi card on Google. — MitchellWeg, Jan 10 '18 at 14:15
This is what Terminal says: 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:43ae] (rev 02) — MitchellWeg, Jan 10 '18 at 17:42
I've searched the internet some more in the past few days but couldnt find anything. Is there literally nothing? — MitchellWeg, Jan 11 '18 at 22:02
please read this answer it has your solution https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers — Scott Stensland, Nov 02 '18 at 01:34
No Linux driver for this card exists yet: https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=pci:14e4-43ae-17aa-0622 — linuxbuild, Jan 20 '20 at 18:54

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 02 '18 at 04:44

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try this:

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt install net-tools
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source

It work for me

edited Nov 02 '18 at 04:44

waltinator

answered Nov 02 '18 at 01:06

jose

What is the ID of your card? The [14e4:43ae] is not supported by kernel or wl yet. – linuxbuild Jan 20 '20 at 18:56

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