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I have an HP Envy 300 (desktop) running Ubuntu 14.04.

I have both a mini PCI wifi/bluetooth card (Broadcom BCM43228) and USB wifi.

I can see both wireless options in the Networks component of System.

The USB wifi connects both to the unsecured network across the street as well as my secured (WPA/WPA2) network.

The PCI wifi will not authenticate. It sees all the wireless networks available, I can ask it to connect to the unsecured connection across the street and it just doesn't connect. If I ask it to connect to my secured connection, I type in the password and get an authentication error.

I updated the BCM driver yesterday (after which, the PCI wifi does now show up in Networks).

Any other suggestions? FWIW, I had the same behavior when I was attempting to use the PCI wifi when running Windows when the system came out of the box (the PCI card was "factory installed").

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  • dbadmin@Envy:~$ sudo lspci -nn | grep 0280 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359] dbadmin@Envy:~$
    – kjoakey
    Feb 28, 2015 at 16:49
  • *-network description: Network controller product: BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=bcma-pci-bridge latency=0 resources: irq:19 memory:f7c00000-f7c03fff
    – kjoakey
    Feb 28, 2015 at 16:51

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Try sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source if uname -a shows a 3.13 kernel, if it shows a 3.16 kernel then download from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/bcmwl-kernel-source as the ubuntu forums broadcom sticky shows that bcmwl-kernel-source as the correct driver for your chipset

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  • 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
    – kjoakey
    Mar 2, 2015 at 17:47
  • Followed the directions in the sticky, installed the noted driver above and same behavior. It will not authenticate on the open wifi network - it says 'Connecting' and then just comes back as Not Connected
    – kjoakey
    Mar 2, 2015 at 17:49
  • I'd like to be able to use this PCI card to use WoWLAN (which doesn't work on my USB Wifi).
    – kjoakey
    Mar 2, 2015 at 17:49
  • I would try using the utopic version to see if any improvements were made to the driver
    – Jeremy31
    Mar 2, 2015 at 18:15

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