Linksys pci wifi card doesn't work on Mint 17.2

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Linksys pci wifi card doesn't work on Mint 17.2

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I have a Linksys pci wifi card in a self built desktop computer. I am using Linux Mint 17.2. I did everything in this post and could not get it to work until inserted "b43" in the /etc/modules file as mentioned in a post above. Then after rebooting my wifi connections showed up in the taskbar/network connections.
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Re: Can`t get BCM4311 wireless to work. Linux mint 16

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spjoruss wrote:I have a Linksys pci wifi card in a self built desktop computer. I am using Linux Mint 17.2. I did everything in this post and could not get it to work until inserted "b43" in the /etc/modules file as mentioned in a post above. Then after rebooting my wifi connections showed up in the taskbar/network connections.
What is the result of

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dkms status; dpkg -l | grep bcmwl
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Re: Can`t get BCM4311 wireless to work. Linux mint 16

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This is results:

ndiswrapper, 1.59, 3.16.0-38-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
virtualbox-guest, 4.3.10, 3.16.0-38-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!) (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!) (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
rc bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu0.1 amd64 Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source
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Re: Can`t get BCM4311 wireless to work. Linux mint 16

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The bcmwl package blacklists the b43 and a few other modules, so try

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
And it should work
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