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I have a Broadcom wireless card, 14e4:4365 rev 01. The system doesn't recognize my adapter. I went through the troubleshooter and tried to install bcmwl-kernel-source, but the terminal stalled at the end trying to write a file. I tried to install again and it said I needed to remove first. I tried to remove and the terminal stalled again. Is there someone who can walk me through what I should be doing? Otherwise the install is working fine.

Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

I'm brand new to Linux and deeply appreciate any help.

Here's the history from the terminal, shows where it got hung up at the end

susan@Purple:~$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for susan: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
Removing old bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  bcmwl
Version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom
Kernel:  4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64)
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Status: This module version was INACTIVE for this kernel.
depmod....

DKMS: uninstall completed.

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Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 4.15.0-20-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 4.15.0-20-generic
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