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My laptop model is Lenovo G510 which is not able to detect wireless.

When I output of ifconfig -a I can not see any wireless such as wlan. My ubuntu version is 14.04.

How can I install the driver and resolve the problem?

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I have the same laptop :). If your card is a Broadcom 43412 or similar, you will need the broadcom-wl package. To get it, use apt-get install broadcom-wl. On reboot, wifi will start working. Otherwise, try modprobe wl in the command line.

Hope this helps.

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I've got it working with sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source*

This package can be installed even without a working internet connection, since it is present on the ubuntu install disc, under the <mount point for the ubuntu install disc>/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source*.deb

Its prerequisites are the following (also present on the install disc):

/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms*.deb

/pool/main/f/fakeroot/libfakeroot*.deb

/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot*.deb

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