Installing non free Broadcom driver terminated Internet Conn

[Byter_1116]

Hi, I'm setting up 17.2 on a old Dell machine and got to the point of trying to make the wireless work. I have a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card according to

lspci -vq | grep -i wire -B 1 -A 5

But when I updated through device manager after installing the non-free drivers, it was Broadcom 6.0 something I think. During install, ethernet disconnected, wireless connected according to notifications and I think ethernet reconnected without a notification. Then I rebooted. Upon reboot, no ethernet connection, no wireless. I looked at

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf

and this file says it will be overwritten and bcm43xx and b44 are blacklisted. My ethernet adapter is a 44xx broadcom and earlier in the day, system told me I had a broadcom 4311 for wireless.

Now I can't seem to do anything because Device Manager will not let me deselect the 6.0xx? driver without an internet connection.

Anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?

[Byter_1116]

The culprit driver that disabled Broadcom BCM was BCMWL-kernal-source 6.30.223.248+broadcom-0ubuntu0.1. The installation of this driver corrupted my whole system. Tons of error codes during boot and Mint 17.2 could not shutdown in addition to trashing the network configuration. So I reinstalled 17.2 and tried again with the same result. On the third install I learned it was not a non-free driver as I didn't load the non-free drivers. I was afraid to select it again.

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

And it appeared to install properly, and ethernet connection still works but not wifi. nm-applet will not load. It is not a choice from Applets. I can see it in the file manager, but it will not start by double clicking. It also will not start from terminal. Wifi bios control is set to on.

[Laurent85]

Can you open a terminal, copy/paste commands below then post back the result

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inxi -Fxz
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net