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I have been trying to connect to my wireless network for weeks, tried a bunch of new and legacy open source and Broadcom STA-proprietary drivers for BCM4311 (103c:1371, wl) without the option to connect in the menu, "blue" led-indicator not working at all and I'm not able to connect.

I've been trying to connect for weeks, tried all of the suggested solutions, all in vain: Broadcom B43 WiFi not working in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (32-bits) with all the latest updates installed (Linux 3.13.0-44-generic)

If I were to install Windows 7 it would work flawlessly, but I rather not walk down that road again, it's one of the main reasons I chose Ubuntu 14.04 over Windows 8 and their stupid "modern"-UI.

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Mathias
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Please obtain a temporary internet connection and open a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Reboot and tell us if the wireless is working as expected.

If the wireless switch is not working, please try:

sudo modprobe -r hp-wmi
rfkill unblock all
rfkill list all

Any improvement? If so, we will blacklist the module.

Please see this bug report about the same laptop and the same problem: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/183548

Thanks Erin,the reset to default bios settings worked for me too!

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