Monday, June 25, 2018

drivers - How do I get an Acer Npilfy 802.11 (BCM43225) wireless card working?


My Laptop is Acer 5742G with "Npilfy 802.11 wireless".


I have both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10


Earlier when I had Ubuntu 12.04, the wireless was working fine, but after installing 12.10 wireless is not working at all, although it is still working in windows.


I am not able to see "Wireless Networks" in the Network Manager nor in the Network Settings.


This was the output I got for rfkill


0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

This is a snapshot of my Additional Drivers settings.
Drivers


As you can see, the required driver for wireless is installed.



Your problem looks similar to mine, and I think the new kernel and broadcom drivers are the connection. I ran


sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe wl

and it worked for me on a Samsung netbook.


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