WLAN missing on freshly installed Laptop

[O. Sinclair]

On 19/03/2016 17:30, Volker Wysk wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> Volker
> 
My best bet on this would be to connect via cable and then do a drivers
check. it could be there is no free driver for his WLAN but it could
then pop up in the driver check (System Settings), you download it and
then you are good to go
Broadcomm are notoriously difficult in Linux, as an example

kind regards
Sinclair