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I would even go so further as to update the Ubuntu list of PCI.IDs: sudo update-pciids

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If you have just installed Ubuntu, you will need to build an index of available packages before we can install your driver if you have not done so already: sudo apt update The system has to start from scratch in order for this to work and to avoid any conflicts that may appear if earlier work was done.įor example, if you have previously installed the bcmwl-kernel-source package, you will need to remove it by using the purge method: sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source

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This includes any installations using apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, dpkg, software center or manual compilation and installation of the packages.

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We assume you are doing this from scratch and have not changed any configuration files, modules or drivers in the system in any way (apart from updating the system). NOTE - Before proceeding, if you have previously installed any drivers, have blacklisted or uncommented any driver files or configuration files or have done any changes whatsoever to the system to make the drivers work in previous attempts, you will need to undo them in order to follow this guide. This means that you will only have to install this particular package since it appears in all Ubuntu version columns. For example, In this case, since you have the 14e4:4320 rev 03, if we go down the list to the one that shows the exact same PCI.ID you will see that in the columns for Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 it shows the firmware-b43-installer package driver. With this new information you can look in the table below and select the appropriate method to install your driver. So what you will need after this search is: (rev 03) In this case, the revision version is rev 03 as shown inside the Parentheses (.) at the end. In some cases you will also need the revision version (if it appears) for some special cases. The PCI.ID in this example is 14e4:4320 as seen inside the Brackets. You will get something like the following if you have a Broadcom Wireless Adapter (The ID 14e4 used in the example above in most cases is a Broadcom Wireless Card): Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03) To find out which PCI.ID you have, we proceed to opening the terminal by pressing CTRL+ ALT+ T (It should open a window with a blank background) and inside this terminal we run the following command: lspci -nn -d 14e4: The key to finding the correct driver for any network card is what is known as the PCI ID (PCI.ID). There are dozens of Broadcom wireless cards and more seem to appear every day. Knowing what Broadcom Wireless Card you have So with that in mind, the following is what we have right now which is simplified in just 3 steps: 1. Link 3 - Gives an error similar to 'Sorry, installation of this driver failed.' More problems found in Launchpad, Ubuntu Forum and Askubuntu.Wireless card does not turn on, enable or disable (Link 2 Below).After upgrading from a previous version (eg: 12.04 to 12.10) it stops working.Tries to connect many times without correctly finishing connection.Appears connected on Network Manager but does not receive Internet.Connects and disconnects continuously every X amount of seconds.Fails when installed via Additional Drivers / Additional Hardware (Link 3 Below).Creates huge log reports trying to correctly configure or connect.System freezes completely (You can only press Reboot/Power button) (Link 1 Below).

Crashes system with dmesg errors in log (Link 1 Below).

Stops any receiving/transmitting traffic (Needs reboot to temporarily fix).

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Keeps asking for password even on cases where AP does not have any.Stops searching for other devices (Does not see any other device).Connections timeout after several minutes or hours.

Common problems that will be solved (Apart from drivers not installing) are: After you follow this guide, you will NEED to test your wireless connection for at least 2 hours (I actually recommend 8 hours) with another device in either Ad-Hoc Mode, Infrastructure Mode or Both. In total we wanted to offer an answer that could be easy to follow and covered most Broadcom Cards / Drivers. Special thanks to chili555 who helped in the Ubuntu forums and on this site with many questions related to Wireless devices and to others who have contributed through E-Mail, chats, IRC and more in testing various drivers with several of the most popular Broadcom Wireless cards (Huge Thanks to Chili555 really. This answer is based on an extensive research done by various Ubuntu users that worked together in almost all issues related to Broadcom.