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I am completely new to Ubuntu Mate. I purchased a larger hard drive for my old HP laptop and installed 14.04 LTS as the only operating system.

The good news: it works great, with a wired connection, the bad news: I cannot seem to get the WiFi connection set up.

I have tried to install the proprietary driver, I've searched the forums and entered certain codes into the terminal, I've followed instructions that have seemed to work for others who have asked similar questions but I cannot seem to get this set up or even have my WiFi or any WiFi connection detected.

Pls let me know if I can provide any additional detail - I really appreciate any guidance you can share.

Thank you !

Joez

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The Additional Drivers tool offers to install the proprietary Broadcom STA driver for your device. It is incorrect. With a temporary internet connection,open a terminal and do:

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

The firmware installer takes a few moments; please be patient. When it finishes, reboot and your wireless should be working.

chili555
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