Tuesday, May 31, 2016

wireless - Wifi not working on Ubuntu Dual Boot with windows 8.1 ( ASUS X550LD )


Hey guys i recently dual booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my laptop ASUS X550LD. The dual boot works perfectly but wifi doesnt connect in Ubuntu.


It connects on Windows 8 perfectly. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.


3:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6605]
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge


If you have a wired internet connection just run in a terminal


sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

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