Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 September 2018 17:03:11 Robert Heller wrote:

> 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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I've given up on broadcom, I have an OLD HP lappy with a BCM4318 radio in 
it, and not even the official windows drivers would make a connection 
for more than 5 seconds. Got a netgear usb dongle by somebody else, and 
it Just Works. On every linux I've installed on it, mint 15 right now 
IIRC.

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