Wifi won't work on 14.04

Question

I have tried to install B43 using cutter and STA wifi drivers for Ubuntu 14.04 on an HP Compaq nx6310, but it just won't work. Wired ethernet only works with the live CD. Any help on the exact procedure would be great. By doing the following below I get limited wired ethernet connection but no wifi! If I do an update after this I get nothing again.

cd /cdrom/pool/main/d/dkms
sudo dpkg -i dkms*

cd /cdrom/pool/main/f/fakeroot
sudo dpkg -i fakeroot*

cd /cdrom/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl
sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source*

Solution

You can use:

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

Comments

[Pilot6]

possible duplicate of Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers

[Ted]

I am not using any microsoft windows on this laptop,must I create a "ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 directory" first and then place the windows driver in it?

[Wild Man]

Please do what is in the accepted answer in the link below so we may see the information needed to help diagnose the issue. <askubuntu.com/questions/425155/…>

[Jonas]

After this just have to restart and wifi is working!