[Solved] Re: WLAN missing on freshly installed Laptop

[Aaron Honeycutt]

Right that is needed for most MacBooks and Mac Minis with their BCM4321
wifi cards.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Am Saturday 19 March 2016, 16:30:57 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > I want to install Kubuntu on a friend's laptop (about seven years old),
> but
> > I can't get WLAN to work,
> > although I've installed it on my own Laptop, which did work properly.
> >
> > There is no WLAN-configuration in the Kubuntu-Installer.
> >
> > I can't remember the command to report this any longer, but the machine
> > appears to have a WLAN controller.
> >
> > On my own Laptop, there is a KDE WLAN icon, in the control bar at the
> > bottom, where you can chose a WLAN hotspot. This is missing on my
> friend's.
> > We also could not find something WLAN related in the System Settings.
> >
> > In the Kubuntu installer it appears the networking configuration is
> skipped.
> >
> > My friend's laptop is a Dell Vostro 1720. The distribution is Kubuntu
> 15.10.
> >
> >
> > I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>
> I've solved the issue by installing bcmwl-kernel-source and rebooting
> (found
> it in the ubuntu-users list). Thanks.
>
> bye
> V.W.
>
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