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Need help with Wifi Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac

Post by ryanbersa »

Hi all,

I am having the same problem with my yoga 3. Tried the traditional method but doesnt work. See picture attached.

We want to move all 10 our office pcs to Linux but looks like we are off to a bad start :(

Ryan
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Re: Need help with Wifi Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac

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Hello, Ryan.
I am having the same problem with my yoga 3. Tried the traditional method but doesnt work. See picture attached.
I am not quite sure what "the traditional method" is supposed to be?
Looking at the screenshot I am not sure that it displays some kind of problem. Have you clicked on the [Apply Changes] button?

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Re: Need help with Wifi Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac

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ryanbersa,

What kernel are you using

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Re: Need help with Wifi Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac

Post by Fred Barclay »

@ryansbersa:

I just installed Mint 17.2 into a machine with a Broadcom wifi card and couldn't install the driver from the Driver Manger; same as you I suppose. It just wouldn't finish the "Apply Changes" option.
I solved it by opening up Terminal and running

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sudo apt-get update
After this the Broadcom driver installed perfectly. Please note: you'll need an internet connection before running the command, so you need to connect your machine via ethernet.

BTW: strangely, although the driver manager reported that the wifi card wasn't working (before installing the driver),

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ping 8.8.8.8 -c 4
worked perfectly. If this occurs for you, you can skip connecting the machine to ethernet and just run "sudo apt-get update" before installing the Broadcom driver. :)
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