Sunday, April 3, 2016

Cannot Connect to WiFi using Broadcom wireless

Forgive my noob-ignorance, but I tried doing the research before asking here.


I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 on an original MacBook Air and I didn't see any networks in the WiFi dropdown even though wireless seems to be on.


I don't have a wired connection, so I have to download drivers on another computer and install them manually.


I looked up my wireless card and it says that it is a Broadcom with a PCI.ID of 14e4:4328 (rev 05). Then I looked up the driver in the table and it said that I needed to use "firmware-b43-installer". In another thread, I found out that, for Ubuntu 16.04, I needed to use b43-fwcutter_019-2_amd64.deb to install the driver in broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2.


When I install this and reboot, I still don't see any WiFi networks showing up.


Is there something else that I need to do? What other info do you need?


[EDIT] Here is the output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list


02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme [106b:008b]
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: ssb, wl
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no

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