Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

[Grant Devinney]

Hey everyone, I installed Ubuntu on my old dell laptop and the proprietary drivers aren't supported by ubuntu. I was wondering if anyone had a work around? The wireless nic is "Broadcom Corporation: Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card"

[Jack Coats]

My best luck has been, plug it into a wired connection to start with.  Then go turn on the 'proprietary drivers', and update your repositories again with

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

then you can probably either manually enable the right drivers or it will be recognized automatically.

Now disconnect your wired connection, configure your wireless, and have fun!

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Grant Devinney <grantd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone, I installed Ubuntu on my old dell laptop and the proprietary drivers aren't supported by ubuntu. I was wondering if anyone had a work around? The wireless nic is "Broadcom Corporation: Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card"

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[Wesley Duffee-Braun]

A bit of a convoluted route, but I see at http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=R260736 that it is a broadcom 4322 and they do provide drivers from source at http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

But I don't run ubuntu so I can't say for sure if it is a viable solution :(

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[Wesley Duffee-Braun]

Just re-read your post and I realized you may have tried those already. Have you checked out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx ? 

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[Grant Devinney]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, i tried a few different ways to get my nic to work on ubuntu but ultimately admitted defeat and installed linux mint and the nic worked almost instantly.

-Grant

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