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22 May 2011, 1:41 pm

Is there any WIFI driver I can download for this netbook for KUbuntu?
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22 May 2011, 2:32 pm

Try using ndiswrapper - it allows you to use the native Windows drivers under Linux.
Basics: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43752/ho ... s-drivers/
You may need to grab ndiswrapper (I don't think it's installed by default).
lspci should show it as a Broadcom 4312 chipset and a quick search on that seems to indicate you may need to grab some firmware too.


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22 May 2011, 3:58 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Try using ndiswrapper - it allows you to use the native Windows drivers under Linux.
Basics: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43752/ho ... s-drivers/
You may need to grab ndiswrapper (I don't think it's installed by default).
lspci should show it as a Broadcom 4312 chipset and a quick search on that seems to indicate you may need to grab some firmware too.

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22 May 2011, 4:22 pm

What was the fix?


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22 May 2011, 7:12 pm

Cornflake wrote:
What was the fix?

The Windows one... But I went and 'apt-get remove plasma-netbook' and it uninstalled my Plasma Desktop too.
So, I did another install so I have not tried it fully.
But I made a connection under the emulation (Windows Driver one) one and it made a successful connection.
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22 May 2011, 10:13 pm

What wifi card does it use? I would be surprised if ndiswrapper is actually still necessary, since even Broadcom has Linux-native drivers now.


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