Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

[Wade Smart]

Works fine in Windows, just not on the Ubuntu boot.
There is no hardware switch or fb button.
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:20 PM Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Wade Smart 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.
>
> If the wireless isn't available in Windows, it is not a question if
> Linux supports the Broadcom chipset, like others suggested. I think you
> should check two things:
>
> 1. Is there a hardware switch for wireless? At my Toshiba laptop there
> is a little slide switch at the front and sometimes I have switched it
> off unintendedly.
>
> 2. Check the BIOS if there is an entry to enable / disable the wireless.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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