Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Sep 19 21:03:11 UTC 2018


At Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:16:54 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> My nephew has a Lenovo 80K9 with a
> Broadcom 4352 wireless adapter.
> He is dual booting W10 and Ubuntu 18.04.
> He started with Mint, then something else
> and now Ubuntu. He cant get the wireless
> to show up at all. In each OS there is
> only ethernet.

Broadcom wireless is notoriously hard to get working under Linux (and might 
not be possible).  

> 
> Ive not dual booted so Im not sure this is
> something normal or what. Though looking
> in the mint forums a lot seem to have problems
> with this adapter - which has been around a long
> time.
> 
> We did go through and install broadcom
> drivers but it didnt seem to work.
> 

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