The Ubuntu interface and the use of Windows have many similarities and become the preferred operating system for many developers switching to Linux environments. I believe many friends use the Ubuntu system, most of the time, we will not use a wired connection to the Internet, and not every computer installed after the Ubuntu can use WiFi, so many people because in Ubuntu can not use WiFi and give up to use Ubuntu system. Even if the wireless driver is installed, wireless cannot be used after the system update is installed. This article describes how to install the Broadcom Wireless Card driver on Ubuntu system, for the hope of Learning Linux system Friends Reference.
Native environment: ubuntu15.10,32 bit.
First, to install the wireless card driver, you have to know the machine's wireless network card model, this model can be detected by the hardware detection tool, can also be detected by the Linux command, the following is the detection command:
LSPCI-VV | grep Network
This is the Broadcom official website to provide all Broadcom NIC related drivers: Click to view. On this page, the official website also wrote a readme file for this driver, which contains a detailed description of the driver. But I do not know why the computer on the official website is the driver installation success, a variety of search information after and after the attempt through this package (click to download, if the link fails, please search for download) more than once the installation succeeded. I will record the installation process.
Open terminal, will download the good Wireless card driver (i download the version is: hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz) extract to the specified folder, here I put in the user directory.
The steps are as follows:
1, the machine has downloaded the corresponding version of the driver, 32-bit, under the/home/tim/hy, enter the directory.
Command: Cd/home/tim/hy
2, execute make command, compile. Command: Make
3, will generate Wl.ko file, copy to directory, command: sudo cp wl.ko/lib/modules/' uname-r '/kernel/net/wireless/
4. Load this module
Command: sudo depmod
Command: sudo modprobe wl
You should be able to connect to Wi-Fi at this time.
For detailed operation, see:
Problems encountered during installation, please see:
Ubuntu Wireless Card driver installation details. doc.tar.gz
Ubuntu Broadcom Wireless Card driver installation