Saturday, November 10, 2018

Ubuntu 14.04 - No wireless connection


I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on my HP laptop and I do not have any wireless connection.


I have followed the procedure given on this post My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?, and I give here the generated file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10901227/.


Can anyone help me fixing this issue?


Regards,
Xavier



Download the bcmwl-kernel-source from a mirror site from here and install


For some reason Ubuntu decided to put a 3.16 kernel with a version of bcmwl that doesn't work 6.30.223.141 as it does't have the needed patch


If the answer works, please file a bug report, info here


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