Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 16:25 Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> 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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Well bugger! On then... Ill be checking on a new adapter

>
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