Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:31:24 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 16:25 Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
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> > On Wednesday 19 September 2018 17:03:11 Robert Heller wrote:
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> > > 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

Note:

Laptops often use a mini-pci card for the wireless, so *in theory* it might be 
possible to swap out the Broadcom wireless mini-pci card, for say, a Intel 
wireless mini-pci card.  I have no clue how hard that will be and how many 
*little* screws you will have to remove, etc.

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