Sunday, December 20, 2015

networking - Is it possible to use Broadcom BCM43142 wifi in Ubuntu 16.04?

I've spent hours looking on the net, tried various things. One site said that this particular card is not supported by the b43 driver so I have to use wl. And make sure that b43 is blacklisted which I was unable to do (always I try to blacklist the b43 it says permission denied).
So, is it even possible to use this network controller with Ubuntu (16.04)
I've had my new laptop a week now and still not up and running - Win 10 works though :(

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