Broadcom and total lack of wifi

Legacy Netrunner 14.x
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I have had a quick look through and can not find anything on broadcom and wifi .
I am currently having terrible trouble with the wifi on my Toshiba Satellite.
It will not connect up, and I have tried all the usual trial and error stuff with the last distro I had installed, that to was a Ubuntu derivative.
so I wonder if you have any thoughts on wifi instalment or at any rate some solid information that will get the wifi up and running :exclamation: hope someone can help regards phil

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1566
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] (rev 05)
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 156b
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1
00:02.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1
00:08.0 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1537
00:10.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 39)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 39)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 02)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.7 SD Host controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SD Flash Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1580
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1581
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1582
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1583
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1584
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1585
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 07)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
06:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)

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When it comes to broadcom the best solution if possible is buying a wifi card with atheros chip (ath9k or ath5).

Did you take a look here already? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

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The problem is that I have gone round and round in circles.
I have tried most of what’s on offer and it still does not work.
I is getting to the point where as much as I like netrunner (just for connectivity sake) I will have to migrate back to windows.
As for the idea of changing wireless cards I do not think that’s a flyer.
the only way out I can see is a dongle which is a work round but not a solution.
thanks for your help
regards phil

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The Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 chipset requires a recent version of the braodcom wl (STA) drivers to function.
Connect to the internet via ethernet and then install using the driver manager

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I think the driver is too old in Ubuntu 14 to support this card correctly with this driver.