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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

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  • Have you disabled all your wireless? without the data in the diagnostic information we can not see how it is trying to work.
    – grantbow
    Commented Apr 26, 2015 at 18:49
  • sudo modprobe wl and see if it works and it appears that you are just trying Ubuntu from the installation media
    – Jeremy31
    Commented Apr 26, 2015 at 19:18
  • Thanks for your answers. GrantBowman: My wireless is activated. It works OK when using Windows. Jeremy31: With this command I get the following: modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found.
    – user402078
    Commented Apr 26, 2015 at 20:27
  • @Jeremy31: I forgot to react about one of your remark. I am indeed trying Ubuntu from a stick. It is then not installed on my laptop at the moment. Do you think this has an influence on the issue?
    – user402078
    Commented Apr 26, 2015 at 20:46
  • Have you rebooted since running the wireless script? If so you need to go into software and updates/Additional Drivers and select the broadcom STA driver to install
    – Jeremy31
    Commented Apr 26, 2015 at 20:52

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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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  • Thanks a lot for your help. This settled the issue, my wireless connection is now working.
    – user402078
    Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 12:03
  • I am not familiar with bug reporting. I have followed the instruction given on help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. When typing ubuntu-bug bcmwl-kernel-source on a terminal, it is said that the problem cannot be reported as it is not an official Ubuntu package. I did not find how to proceed. Can you help me with this?
    – user402078
    Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 12:47
  • I would file against Ubuntu if possible as it was their mistake mixing a kernel with a package that isn't compatible
    – Jeremy31
    Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 14:44
  • Ok, I will try to find a way to open a new post in order to report this bug. Thanks again.
    – user402078
    Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 17:20
  • I downloaded the ISO and filed my own bug report here You can click "This bug affects me" and there was a bug report over a month ago here
    – Jeremy31
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 9:42

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