Broadcom Wireless Drivers unclaimed after installing update 16.04
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Required key not available
This is the subject of a recent and still open bug in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1572659 Please also see: Can't view Wifi networks after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04
It appears that the only solution so far is to enter the computer's BIOS and turn off Secure Boot.
Secure Boot is a security standard developed by the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer
1) Turn off the secure boot
2) Remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
3) Re-install bcmwl-kernel-source .
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
Reboot. Your wireless should now be working.
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doolitau
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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doolitau over 1 year
I recently updated my Lenovo Y50 computer to 16.04. Since the update, I have been unable to see or connect to any wireless networks. The output of running
sudo lshw -C network
is:*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller product: BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0 version: 03 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:d1600000-d1607fff memory:d1400000-d15fffffThe fact that the wireless network controller is unclaimed leads me to believe that this is a driver related issue. I have checked and made sure that "Use proprietary driver" is checked in System Settings > Software & Updates > Additional Drivers and I have run
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
I have also restarted after every driver change to finish the changes. Is there anything else I should try?EDIT: Here is the result of running
lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
:08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [17aa:0623] Kernel modules: bcma, wl
Running
sudo modprobe wl && dmesg | grep wl
returns an error:modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Required key not available
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Admin about 8 yearsPlease edit your question to add the result of these terminal commands:
lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
and also:sudo modprobe wl && dmesg | grep wl
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doolitau about 8 yearsBingo! All I had to do was disable secure boot and it worked. Thank you so much, chili!
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jjroman about 6 yearsExcellent that was my solution to reinstall the package, thanks.
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geronimo over 5 yearsThanks! My wireless network stopped working after having worked for a long time. Re-installing bcmwl-kernel-source fixed it.
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Kulfy over 4 yearsI assume that the installation of bcmwl-kernel-source was interrupted due to which it remained unconfigured since the command you've mentioned is supposed to configure the packages which were left unconfigured during the installation/upgrade.
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murku over 4 yearsThanks @Kulfy for the explanation!
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Admin almost 2 yearsThank you, works well. If you doesn't have internet because of this problem and can't download the package, you might download it on another computer (named
bcmwl-kernel-sourceXXX.deb
), or smartphone here: packages.ubuntu.com/… and transfer it via USB. Then locate the destination folder in your terminal,cd
there and runsudo dpkg-i ./bcmwl-kernel-sourceXXX.deb
(quite long). Then reboot